Paola Ceroni
University of Bologna
Biography
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). Her PhD thesis was awarded by the Semerano prize from the Italian Chemical Society. In 2015 she was visiting scientist at the University of Pensylvania (Prof. Vinogradov’s laboratory, Philadelphia, US) for 3 months. Current research is focused on photochemistry and electrochemistry of supramolecular systems with particular emphasis towards luminescent nanocrystals. Her research on luminescent silicon nanocrystals was funded by an ERC Starting Grant PhotoSi (2012-2017) and an ERC Proof of Concept SiNBiosys (2017-2019). She is fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. She is co-author of 190 scientific papers in refereed international journals and of a book entitled: “Photochemistry and Photophysics : Concepts, Research, Applications” (2014, Wiley-VCH).
RSC affiliations
Advisory board, Nanoscale Horizons