Seminario A Scientific Journey in Computational Photochemistry: From Ideas to Grant

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Chi interverrà

• Prof. Marco Garavelli

  Professore Ordinario - Dipartimento di Chimica Industriale «Toso Montanari», Università di Bologna
  Dr. Marco Garavelli: Biosketch Research Experiences and Academic Career • Born on 19.09.1969 • Degree in Chemistry at Bologna University (Magna Cum Laude) in 1994. • PhD in Chemical Sciences at Bologna University in 1998. • PostDoc at King's College London in 1998-1999. • Assistant Professor, University of Bologna, 1999. • Full professor (Professeur des Universités) in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at the Ecole Normale Supériere de Lyon (France), 2012-2016. • Associate Professor, University of Bologna, 2014. • Full professor, University of Bologna, 2014. Publications and H-index More than 270 papers on high impact journals (including Nature, PNAS, Angew Chemie, JACS, review articles and research monographs), with more than 12000 citations and H-index 57 (Scopus). Research Activity Methods development and applications in computational (photo)chemistry, photobiology and spectroscopy, with focus to the simulation of the photoreactivity of complex molecular systems in their operative environment, including complex non-linear spectroscopies. Active areas of research are: vision and photobiology, photochromic materials and photochemically driven molecular switches, predictive models for the photoreactivity of organic and biological system, photochemical processes in nano (e.g., supramolecular) structures, tuning and control of reactivity in organic chromophores, interactions with the environment, photocatalysis in proteins, transient spectral signals at different spectral regimes (NIR-VIS-UV-Xray). For his pioneering early-career research, he has been awarded the PRIMO LEVI Prize 2004 by the Italian Chemical Society. In 2012 he has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. He has been leading, and he is currently leading, several international (EU and USA DOE-funded) and national (PRIN) projects. In 2025 he has been awarded an ERC Synergy Grant, together with Prof. Giulio Cerullo, Dr. Caterina Vozzi and Prof. Shaul Mukamel.