Roberta Sessoli#
| Membership Number: | 4768 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.lamm.unifi.it |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2012 Full Professor of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Università degli Studi di Firenze
- 2000 - 2011 Associate Professor of General and Inorganic Chemistry in the Faculty of Pharmacy, Università degli Studi di Firenze
- 1997 - 2000 Associate Researcher at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Fields of Scholarship
- Single molecule magnets
- Molecular spins for quantum technologies
- Spin dynamics in nanostructured materials
- Magnetic molecular materials
- Organization and characterization of molecules on surfaces and hybrid nanostructures
- X-ray absorption and dichroism
- Molecular spintronics
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Member, German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)
- 2023 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Barcelona
- 2019 Centenary Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2018 - 2019 Visiting professorship at the J. Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany
- 2018 Nominated Fellow of the ChemPubSoc Europe class 2016/2017
- 2017 Williams Evans Visiting Professorship at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
- 2017 Elected Member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (the most ancient scientific academy http://www.lincei.it/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=21
)
- 2017 Member of the scientific Advisory Board of the Italian Chemical Society
- 2015 Distinguished Woman in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from IUPAC (International Union of pure and Applied Chemistry)
- 2015 Lecoq de Boisbaudran award from the European Rare Earths Society
- 2013-2014 Member of the Science and Technology Advisory Council of the President of the European Commission, Juan Manuel Barroso
- 2013 Premio Linceo per la Chimica (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei)
- 2013 French-Italian Award of the French Society of Chemistry
- 2012 Beller lectureship of the American Physical Society
- 2010 ERC Advanced Grant (PE3)
- 2002 Agilent Technologies Europhysics Prize
- 2000 Gold Medal Nasini for the best young Italian inorganic chemist of the year
