Dr. Francesco Romano
Francesco Romano leads SINBIOSYS’s business development, strategic partnerships and industrial scale-up. He has coordinated research and innovation projects and currently leads ELISET, funded through the European Innovation Council’s Transition programme.
He holds a PhD in Molecular Sciences from the University of Padova and joined Prof. Paola Ceroni’s group at the University of Bologna in 2015. His expertise in silicon nanocrystal synthesis and surface functionalization bridges materials research and commercial applications.
Prof. Paola Ceroni
Paola Ceroni is full professor at the University of Bologna. In 1998 she obtained her PhD degree in Chemical Sciences at the University of Bologna, after a period in the United States (Prof. Allen J. Bard’s laboratory). Current research is focused on photochemistry and electrochemistry of supramolecular systems and nanocrystals.
Her research on luminescent silicon nanocrystals was funded by an ERC Starting Grant PhotoSi and an ERC Proof of Concept SiNBiosys. She is fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Associate Editor of Dalton Transactions and member of the Editorial Board of Chem. She is co-author of 200 scientific papers and of a book on photochemistry (Wiley-VCH, 2014).
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Prof. Marco Villa
Marco Villa got his PhD in Chemical Sciences in a co-tutorship of the University of Bologna and Aix-Marseille Université, under the supervision of Prof. Paola Ceroni and Prof. Marc Gingras (in 2018).
In his career he worked on the synthesis and characterization of dyes for solar cell, (bio)imaging, sensors and supramolecular chemistry. In 2019 he got a post-doc position at the University of Bologna in the group of Prof. Ceroni on the synthesis and characterization of Silicon nanoparticles for luminescent solar concentrator (LSC).
Angelica Germinario
PhD in Chemical Sciences at the University of Bologna, in collaboration with Sinbiosys Srl.
She holds a Master’s degree in Photochemistry and Molecular Materials and specializes in the synthesis and characterization of silicon, copper indium sulfide and perovskite quantum dots, with a focus on their luminescent properties and applications.
Caterina Bellatreccia
Caterina Bellatreccia got her PhD in chemistry at University of Bologna, working on silicon and copper indium sulfide quantum dots for the conversion of solar energy and bioimaging.
She is an inorganic chemist, with a focus on nanomaterials’ synthesis, characterisation and applications.
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