Team
Titles and Academic Experience: PhD in Chemistry at The University of Edinburgh (2008, UK), Pharmaceutical Chemist (2007, UK) & Pharmacist (2006, Italy) qualifications, honorary researcher at UCL (London, 2005-2007), Academy of Finland Fellow at University of Helsinki (2008-2010), CRSS Fellow jointly at Monash University and Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organization, CSIRO (Melbourne, 2010-2012). In 2013 I returned to the University of Trieste where my scientific adventure had started with the M.Sc. degree, (honours). In 2018 I became Associate Professor and received the Habilitation as Full Professor. In 2021-2022 (6 mo.) I have been Visiting Academic the University of Cambridge (UK). Member the Editorial Board of ACS Nano and of the Advisory Board of Chem, ChemComm, J. Mater. Chem. B, ACS Appl. Bio Mater., Chem. Eur. J., Soft Matter, Materials Advances. Recent awards:
Career Award by the Proteomass Scientific Society (Portugal) - 2024
RSC Soft Matter Lectureship (UK) - 2021
EuChemS Org. Chem. Division representative at ACS Fall meeting (US) - 2020
Howard Lecture (Durham, UK) - 2020
Aulin-Erdtman Lecture (KTH, Sweden) - 2019
Nature Chemistry 10th Anniversary Special Issue "Charting a Course for Chemistry" - 2019
Italy's representative at EuChemS Organic Chemistry Division Workshop (Austria) - 2019
Top-11 Rising Star in the natural sciences worldwide (Nature Index) - 2018
JSP Fellowship at Buergenstock Stereochemistry Conference (Switzerland) - 2018
Vittorio Erspamer Award (Italian Peptide Society) - 2017

You can find the names and details of our DreamTeam below.
If you want to join us or support our science, please get in touch (see Contact webpage) !

Prof. Silvia Marchesan
Principal Investigator
In the background photo: view over the Mediterranean sea from the outskirts of Trieste (Rilke's trail)

VISITING SCIENTISTS & ERASMUS

Ena Dražić - Univ. of Rijeka (CROATIA) - 2024
Pedro Liz Basteiro ​- ICTP-CSIS (SPAIN) - 2023
Dr. Andrew Heard - Univ. of Cambridge (UK) - 2022
Patrizia Jancović - Univ. of Rijeka (CROATIA) - 2022
Samuel Clark - Univ. of Cambridge (UK) - 2022
Prof. Meng Li - North China ElectricPower Univ. (CHINA) - 2021
Maria Del Carmen Manas Torres - Univ. of Granada (SPAIN) - 2021
Liliana Barravecchia - University of Coruna (SPAIN) - 2021
Anju Tomar - University of Trento (Italy) - 2020
Yanira Zeyn - Mainz University (GERMANY) - 2019
Tino Mackiol - Mainz University (GERMANY) - 2019
Prof. Gökçen Akgül, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Univ. (TURKEY) - 2018
Dr. Manuel Melle-Franco, University of Aveiro (PORTUGAL) - 2017
Dr. Cally Haynes, University College London (UK) - 2017
Prof. Darja Lisjak, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana (SLOVENIA) - 2015

ALUMNI & PAST GROUP MEMBERS

Dott. Simone Burato - undergrad 2022 & M. Sc. 2024
Dott. Sara Pian - M Sc. 2024
Dott. Riccardo Pascolo - M. Sc. 2024
Dott. Luca Montesel - M. Sc. 2024
Dr. Simone Adorinni - M. Sc. 2020, PhD 2023 & postdoc 2024
Dr. Petr Rozhin - PhD 2024
Dott. Marco De Corti - undergraduate student 2023
Dr. Arturo Blanco Gómez - postdoc 2023
Dott. Fabio Fazio - M. Sc. 2023
Dott. Giovanni Bassan - M. Sc. 2023
Dott. Sara Panebianco - M. Sc. 2023
Dott. Beatrice Rosetti - M. Sc. 2022
Dr. Ottavia Bellotto - PhD 2022
Dott. Veronica Mosetti - M. Sc. 2022
Dott. Federica Secco - M. Sc. 2021
Dott. Kevin Mamprin - undergraduate student 2021
Dott. Lorenzo Rizzo - M. Sc. 2021
Dr. Alessandro Beltram - postdoc until 2020
Dott. Tiziano Carlomagno - M. Sc. 2020
Dott. Giuseppe Marino - M. Sc. 2020
Dr. Maria C. Cringoli - PhD 2020
Dr. Marina Kurbasic - M.Sc. 2017, then PhD 2020
Dott. Serena Gentile - M. Sc. - 2019
Dr. Evelina Parisi - PhD 2019
Dott. Simone Viada - M. Sc. - 2018
Dr. Ana Garcia - postdoc until 2018
Dott.ssa Chiara Romano - M. Sc. - 2018
Dott. Gabriele Sorentini - undergraduate student - 2018
Dott.ssa Alexia Mattellone - undergraduate student - 2017
Dr. Slavko Kralj - postdoc until 2017
Dr. Daniel Iglesias - PhD 2017, then postdoc
Dott. Massimo Urban - undergraduate student - 2016
In the background photo, sandy beaches can be easily reached by Delfino Verde boat daily service in 1 hour from Trieste