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Politecnico di Milano

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Date and Place of Birth: 16/04/1972, Copertino (Lecce), Italy

Nationality: Italian

2011 - Full Professor of Fundamentals of Chemistry for Technologies, Department of Chemistry, Materials, and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano.

2011 - Visiting Professor of Molecular Recognition at the VTT - Technical Research Centre of Finland.

2015 - Visiting Professor at the Centre of Excellence in Molecular Engineering of Biosynthetic Hybrid Materials of Aalto University, Finland.

2010 - 2010 Research Professor of Molecular Recognition at the VTT - Technical Research Centre of Finland.

2010 - 2005 Associate Professor of Fundamentals of Chemistry for Electronics, Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano.

2005 - 2002 Assistant Professor of Fundamentals of Chemistry for Informatics, Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano.

2002 - 2002 Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, under the research contract entitled “Anions-Driven Self-Assembly of Perfluorocarbons and Hydrocarbons”.

2003 Specialization School in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (2 years), which P. Metrangolo obtained cum Laude from the Politecnico di Milano on May 30, discussing a thesis entitled “Halogen Bonding-Mediated Fluorinated Coating of Polymers”.

2001 Ph.D. in Industrial Chemistry (3 years) from the University of Milan on December 18, discussing a thesis entitled “Halogen Bonding: A Paradigm in Supramolecular Chemistry”.

1997 Degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology (Laurea, 5 years) from the University of Milan on July 21, with the score of 110/110, discussing a thesis entitled “Photolysis Reactions of Triazolines: A New Synthesis to Phenantridines”.

Author of 185 articles (Source: ISI WoS Core Collection 03-02-16) published in international peer-reviewed journals like Science, Chem. Rev., Chem. Soc. Rev., Nature Chem., Nature Commun., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Chem. Eur. J., Chem. Commun., etc. (Sum of the Times Cited: 9266 (7891 without self-citations), H-index = 49). Average citations per article: 50.09; Journal Covers: 14 (1 in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 1 in Adv. Funct. Mater., 3 in ChemComm, 1 in J. Mater. Chem. C, 3 in CrystEngComm, 2 in Cryst. Growth Des., 1 in Org. Biol. Chem., 1 in New J. Chem., 1 in J. Polym. Sci. A); Chapters in international books: 10; International patent applications: 11; Invited oral presentations at meetings: 45 (7 plenary, 19 keynote, and 19 invited). Invited seminars at universities and research institutes: 26. According to the ISI Essential Science Indicators database Prof. Metrangolo is in the Top 1% of the most cited scientists in Chemistry (Prof. Metrangolo is ranked in position no. 1224 with 4800 citations in Chemistry, which corresponds to the top 0.13%; Source: ISI ESI 14-07-15).

8) European Research Council (ERC) awardee, Starting Grant 2012 (Consolidator), project “Folding with Halogen Bonding (FoldHalo)”; 7) Best Oral Presentation Award at the 4th "International Symposium on Fluorous Technologies (ISoFT'11), 30 November - 3 December 2011, Hong Kong (HK); 6) Young Chemist Award at the 42nd IUPAC World Chemistry Congress, 2-7 August 2009, Glasgow (UK); 5) CrystEngComm Sponsored Lectureship at the Symposium on Crystal Engineering of the 42nd IUPAC World Chemistry Congress, 3 August 2009, Glasgow (UK); 4) Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), UK, 2007 (by invitation); 3) Recipient of the “G. Ciamician” Medal 2005 of the Italian Chemical Society, which seeks to honour the most meritorious contribution of a younger chemist, below 35 years of age, working in any area of Organic Chemistry (see Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 6614); 2) Recipient of the Journals Grant Award for International Authors 2005 of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK; 1) Best Poster Award of the Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires and Université Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg (Director: Nobel Laureate Prof. J.-M. Lehn) at the ESF Research Conference on Supramolecular Chemistry, Strasbourg, France, 2005.

26) University of Pavia (IT) (2016); 25) Aalto University (FI) (2015); 24) University of Tokyo (JP) (2015); 23) K. University of Leuven, (BE) (2015); 22) ICIQ-Tarragona (ES) (2014); 21) University of Trieste (IT) (2014); 20) University of Geneve (CH) (2013); 19) CiQUS, University of Santiago de Compostela (ES) (2013); 18) University of Tokyo (JP) (2012); 17) Tokyo Institute of Technology (JP) (2012); 16) University of Gothenburg (SE) (2012); 15) University of Geneve (CH) (2011); 14) University of Namur (BE) (2011); 13) UMK Center for New Materials, Aalto University, Helsinki (FI) (2010); 12) University of Jyväskylä (FI) (2009); 11) University of Cambridge (UK) (2009); 10) National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Nagoya (JP) (2008); 9) University of York (UK) (2007); 8) Nanoscience Center, Jyväskylä (FI) (2006); 7) University of Rome “La Sapienza” (IT) (2006); 6) University of Durham (UK) (2005); 5) University of Sheffield (UK) (2005); 4) University of York (UK) (2005); 3) University of Jyväskylä (FI) (2004); 2) National Nanotechnology Laboratory (NNL), Lecce (IT) (2003); 1) University of Paris-Sud XI (Chatenay-Malabry, FR).

45) 99th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 5-9 June, 2016 (invited lecture); 44) 23rd IUPAC International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Sydney, Australia, 3-8 July, 2016 (invited lecture); 43) 2nd International Symposium on Halogen Bonding, Gothenburg, Sweden, 6-10 June, 2016 (keynote lecture); 42) 1st South African Fluorine Symposium (SAFS2016), Cape Town, SA, 14-18 February, 2016 (plenary lecture); 41) Annual Meeting of the RSC Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry Group (MASC-15), Durham University, Durham, UK, 21-22 December, 2015 (plenary lecture); 40) The 18th Symposium on the Society of Iodine Science, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, 16 September, 2015 (keynote lecture); 39) XXI International Conference on "Horizons in Hydrogen Bond Research", University of Wrocław, Poland, 13 - 18 September, 2015 (invited lecture); 38) International Conference on Structural Chemistry of Molecules and Materials, University of Calcutta, India, November 30 – December 2, 2014 (invited lecture); 37) 2nd Indian International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry, Hyderabad, India, November 3 – 7, 2014 (plenary lecture); 36) XXV Congresso Nazionale della Società Chimica Italiana, Arcavacata di Rende, Cosenza, Italy, September 7 – 12, 2014 (keynote lecture); 35) 7th Italian-Japanese Workshop on Liquid Crystals, Ravenna, Italy, July 7 – 10, 2014 (invited lecture); 34) 1st International Symposium on Halogen Bonding, Porto Cesareo, Lecce, Italy, June 18 – 22, 2014 (keynote lecture); 33) 9th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry, Shanghai, China, June 7 - 11, 2014 (invited lecture); 32) International Conference on Fluorine Chemistry 2014, Tokyo, Japan, May 28 - 30, 2014 (invited lecture); 31) 17th European Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry, Paris, France, July 21-25, 2013 (keynote lecture); 30) 7th Workshop on Crystal Forms, Bologna, Italy, June 9 – 11, 2013 (invited lecture); 29) 96th Canadian Chemistry Conference, Quebec City, Canada, May 26 – 30, 2013 (invited lecture); 28) International Symposium on Fluorous Technologies (ISoFT’13), Budapest, Hungary, June 2 – 5, 2013 (plenary lecture); 27) Intermolecular Interactions in Crystals, S. Margherita di Pula, Cagliari, Italy, April 28 – 30, 2013 (invited lecture); 26) 2013 Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Atlanta, USA, November 12-16, 2013 (keynote lecture); 25) Conference Chemistry: Synthesis, Structure and Dynamics, December 12-14, 2012, Bangalore, India (invited lecture); 24) 6th International Meeting on Halogen Chemistry, December 8-11, 2012, Bangalore, India (invited lecture); 23) iCeMS-ERATO Symposium “New Dimensions of Functional Coordination Frameworks”, July 26-27, 2012, Kyoto, Japan (invited lecture); 22) 2012 Gordon Research Conference on Crystal Engineering, June 10-15, 2012, Waterville Valley Resort, NH, USA (invited lecture); 21) XLI Congresso Associazione Italiana di Cristallografia, Verona, Italy, September 11-14, 2012 (keynote lecture); 20) 2nd International Meeting on Organic Materials for a Better Future, Carovigno, Brindisi, Italy, September 16-20, 2012 (invited lecture); 19) XXII Congress of the International Union of Crystallography, Madrid (ES), August 22-30, 2011 (invited lecture); 18) X Congresso Nazionale di Chimica Supramolecolare, Perugia (IT), September 25-28, 2011 (keynote lecture); 17) SAYCS 2011, Pesaro (IT), October 17-19, 2011 (plenary lecture); 16) 6th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (6-ISMSC), Brighton (UK), July 3 - 7, 2011 (keynote lecture); 15) 16th European Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry (16th ESFC), Ljubljana (SI), July 18-23, 2010 (keynote lecture); 14) Joint 66th SWRM and 62nd SERMACS Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New Orleans (LA USA), December 1 – 4, 2010 (keynote lecture); 13) Discussion Meeting on Intermolecular Interactions, Bangalore (IN), November 28 – December 1, 2010 (keynote lecture); 12) Emerging Themes in Structural Chemistry, Crystal Growth and Design India Summit, Bangalore India, December 2-3, 2010 (keynote lecture); 11) 9° Congresso Nazionale Società Italiana Cristalli Liquidi (SICL'10), Cetraro (CZ, IT), July 5 – 6, 2010 (plenary lecture); 10) American Crystallographic Association Meeting, Toronto (CAN), July 25-30, 2009 (keynote lecture); 9) 19th International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry, Jackson Hole (WYO USA), August 23-28, 2009 (invited lecture); 8) 42nd IUPAC World Chemistry Congress, August 3, 2009, Glasgow (UK) (keynote lecture); 7) 10th European Conference on Liquid Crystals, Colmar (FR), April 19-24, 2009 (keynote lecture); 6) XXXVIII Italian Crystallographic Association Congress, Salerno (IT), September 20-23, 2009 (keynote lecture); 5) XXI Congress of the International Union of Crystallography, Osaka (JP) 2008 (invited lecture); 4) Symposium on Halogen Bonding, York (UK), March 18, 2009 (keynote lecture); 3) 2nd International Symposium on Fluorous Technologies, Yokohama (JP) 2007 (invited lecture); 2) XXX Convegno Nazionale della Divisione di Chimica Organica della Società Chimica Italiana, Siena (IT) 2005 (plenary lecture); 1) 14th European Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry, Poznan (PL) 2004 (keynote lecture).

9) Chairman of the 14th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC-14), Lecce, Italy, June 9-13, 2019; 8) Chairman of the 2nd IUPAC/ICSU Workshop on Crystal Engineering, Como, Italy, August 31-September 1, 2015; 7) Chairman of the 21st International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry, Como, Italy, August 23-28, 2015; 6) Chairman of the 1st IUPAC/ICSU Workshop on Crystal Engineering, Porto Cesareo, Lecce, Italy, June 18, 2014; 5) Chairman of the 1st International Symposium on Halogen Bonding, Porto Cesareo, Lecce, Italy, June 18-22, 2014; 4) Chairman of the IUCr 2011 Satellite Workshop “Categorizing Halogen Bonding and Other Noncovalent Interactions Involving Halogen Atoms” August 20-21, 2011, Sigüenza, Guadalajara (ES); 3) Organizer of the Symposium “Halogen Bonding: A World Parallel to Hydrogen Bonding” at the 238th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Washington D.C., August 16-20, 2009; 2) Co-chair of the Symposium “Self-organization and self-assembly: From nucleation to crystal growth, from eutectics to photonic and liquid crystals, and from theory to application” at the XXI Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography, Osaka (JP) (August 23-31, 2008); 1) Organizer of the Symposium “Nanostructured Fluorocarbons: Smart Modules for Self-Assembly” at the 234th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Boston MA, August 17-23, 2007.