Componenti del gruppo di ricerca

Fabio Piccinelli (Associated PI Unit 2)

Associate Professor in Inorganic Chemistry at University of Verona since 2016. His research focuses on the synthesis, structural and spectroscopic characterization of luminescent complexes of lanthanide ions with potential applications in the biomedical and technological fields. He is co-author of 156 peer-reviewed publications, including reviews and book chapters, more than 35 posters and communications in national and international congresses, including 7 invited talks. He possesses an H-index of 33 (Scopus, November 2022) with an average of 7/8 publications per year. In this project, he will be mainly involved in the coordination of the activity focused on the synthesis, characterization and spectroscopic investigation of the proposed luminescent Ln(III)-based complexes of curcumin derivatives. Recently, the UniVr research unit established a collaboration with the research group of the Dr. O. Maury at the ENS of Lyon (France), to design new lanthanide complexes, in which the luminescence of the lanthanide ion is sensitized upon the absorption of two photons (in the NIR spectral region) by the organic ligand. The increased competences acquired by UniVr on this NLO phenomenon will be very useful to develop the TheCURA project.

Silvia Mizzoni (team component Unit 2)

PhD student in Nanoscience and advanced technologies at University of Verona since 2020. Her research focuses on the synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of lanthanide complexes with potential applications as optical bioprobes in cellulo or/and in vivo experiments. She is co-author of 2 peer-reviewed publications and she possesses an H-index of 1 (Scopus, November 2022) with an average of 1 publications per year. In this project, she will be mainly involved in the synthesis, characterization and spectroscopic investigation of the proposed luminescent Ln(III)-based complexes of curcumin derivatives. It is important to notice that Silvia spent 7 months in the lab of Dr. Maury in Lyon, working on lanthanide complexes whose luminescence is sensitized by the two photon absorption mechanism. As already stated, this NLO phenomenon represents one of the key points of the present project. Furthermore, the UniVr and UniUD research units already established a strong collaboration, well documented in the literature, focused on the spectroscopy, thermodynamics and the molecular structure of lanthanide-based compounds designed for biological applications.

Silvia Ruggieri (team component Unit 2)

Silvia Ruggieri is post-doc researcher in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Verona in the research group of Prof. Fabio Piccinelli. She received her MSc and PhD from the University of Bologna (2015 and 2019) working on transition metal clusters chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Cristina Femoni. She spent a research period at EPFL in Lausanne (Switzerland) in the research group of Prof. Paul J. Dyson. Her actual research interests relate to the design, synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of luminescent lanthanide-based complexes.