Curriculum Vitae
Academic Experience
| 2023 - | University Assistant, University of Graz, AT |
| 2021 - 2023 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Hewitt Foundation Fellowship, The Scripps Research Institute, USA (Prof. Dr. Phil S. Baran) |
| 2020 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Eli Lilly Research Award Program, University of Amsterdam, NL (Prof. Dr. Timothy Noël) |
Education
| 2016 - 2020 | Doctor of Philosophy, Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), NL, cum laude |
| 2013 - 2016 | Master of Science, Organic Chemistry, University of Pisa, IT, 110/110 cum laude |
| 2010 - 2013 | Bachelor of Science, Chemistry, University of Pisa, IT, 110/110 cum laude |
Prizes and Awards
| 2023 | Habilitation for Associate Professorship in Organic Chemistry, MIUR - Italy |
| Habilitation for Associate Professorship in Industrial Chemistry, MIUR - Italy | |
| 2022 | CAS Future Leaders |
| 2021 | PhD AMCEL Award |
| SCI Doctoral Thesis Award for Organic Chemistry Methodology | |
| IUPAC-Zhejiang NHU International Award for Advancements in Green Chemistry | |
| IUPAC-SOLVAY International Award For Young Chemists |
Grants and Fellowships
| 2025 | ERC Get Started! Grant |
| 2024 | Doctoral Scholarship Award |
| 2024 | Lilly Research Award Program |
| 2024 | Unkonventionelle Forschung (UFO) |
| 2021 - 2023 | Hewitt Foundation Fellowship for Medical Research |
Conference Participation
| 2025 | Merging Automation and Electrochemistry to Accelerate Medicinal Chemistry Applications (Invited Speaker) - Flow Chemistry Europe 2025, 3rd - 4th April 2025, Malaga, ES |
| 2024 | Merging Automation and Electrochemistry to Accelerate Medicinal Chemistry Applications (Invited Speaker) - Automated Synthesis Forum, 11th - 12th November 2024, Oxford, UK |
| 2024 | Electrochemical Automation to Accelerate Medicinal Chemistry Discoveries - Biobased Chemistry and Technology Chemietage, 23st - 25th September 2024, Graz, AT |
| 2023 | Electrochemical functionalization of heteroarenes through decarboxylative arylation enabled by silver nanoparticle modified electrodes - The Walter Eckhart Hewitt Fellows Symposium, 26th September 2023, La Jolla, USA |
| 2022 | Electrochemical decarboxylative arylation enabled by silver nanoparticle modified electrodes - ACS Fall 2022, 21st - 25th August 2022, Chicago, USA |
| 2021 | New synthetic methods enabled by photochemistry and electrochemistry in flow (Invited Speaker - Amcel PhD Award) - Amcel Symposium, 28th October 2021, Amsterdam, The Netherlands New synthetic methods enabled by photochemistry and electrochemistry in flow (Invited Speaker - IUPAC-Zhejiang NHU International Award) - IUPAC CCCE 2021 - 48th World Chemistry Congress & 104th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, 13th - 20th August 2021, Montreal, Canada |
| 2020 | Photochemical activation of gaseous alkanes in continuous-flow - The Netherlands’ Catalysis and Chemistry Conference, 2nd - 4th March 2020, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands |
| 2019 | Combining electrochemical methodology development with flow technology - The best of two worlds? - CHemistry as INnovative Science, 10th - 11th December 2019, Veldhoven, The Netherlands |
| 2018 | Photochemical C(sp3) Oxidation in a Continuous-Flow Microreactor - The Netherlands’ Catalysis and Chemistry Conference, 5th - 7th March 2018, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands |