Ph.D. student: Noemi Gallucci

Cycle 35

Supervisors: L. Paduano, I. Russo Krauss

• Semerano Award 2024, for the best PhD thesis in Physical Chemistry

Thesis Title: "Hybrid nanostructures systems: Physico-chemical properties and applications in biomedical and technological field"

Ph.D. student: Salvatore La Gatta

Cycle 35

Supervisors: A. Lombardi, F. Nastri

• 2023 Award for the best PhD thesis in Inorganic Chemistry, in the field of Bioinorganic Chemistry (SCI – Division of Inorganic Chemistry)

Thesis Title: "De novo designed copper-containing metalloenzymes for oxidative chemistry"

Ph.D. student: Francesca Fasulo

Cycle 35

Supervisors: A M. Pavone, A. B. Muñoz-García

• Giuseppe del Re PhD Award 2024, conferred by the SCI Division of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry "for the original contribution in the field of theoretical-computational methodologies applied to energy storage and conversion chemistry"

Thesis Title: "Multiscale Modelling of Heterogeneous Interfaces for Energy Conversion and Storage"

Ph.D. student: Massimo Melchiorre

Cycle 37

Supervisors: F. Ruffo, M. E. Cucciolito

• "Cinzia Chiappe" Award 2025, for the best PhD thesis in the field of Green Chemistry, Sustainable Chemistry"

Thesis Title: "Solvents from biomass: synthesis and applications in sustainable catalysis, storage energy devices, and cultural heritage"

Ph.D. student: Rodolfo Esposito

Cycle 35

Supervisor: G. D'Errico

1. Award "Best Poster Prize at the 10th International Colloids Conference 2020, Palma online, December 2020"

Poster Title: "Biosurfactant mixtures: Towards the design of sustainable green formulations"

2. Award "Best Poster Prize at the 11th International Colloids Conference 2022, Lisbon, June 2022"

Poster Title: Biosurfactants for green formulations: structural, functional and ecotoxicological properties of Rhamnolipid–SLES mixtures.

3. Award "Best Poster Prize at the 12th International Colloids Conference 2023, Palma, June 2023"

Poster Title: Monorhamnolipid mixtures: a bioinspired strategy for eco-sustainable spreading formulations.

Ph.D. student: Ferran Nieto-Fabregat

Cycle 35

Supervisors: A. Silipo, R. Marchetti

1. Award "Best poster presentation, Advanced Conference-School on Carbohydrate Chemistry" 2022"

Poster Title: "DC-SIGN Recognizes the Outer Core of Escherichia Coli Lipooligosaccharide"

2. Award "Best poster presentation at 30th International Carbohydrate Symposium Brazil (ICS2022)"

Poster Title: Gram-Negative Bacteria LPS Recognition by Human Lectins: the Case of DC-Sign.

Ph.D. student: Salvatore La Gatta

Cycle 35

Supervisors: A. Lombardi, F. Nastri

• Award "Best poster prize at the 5th Workshop "Chemists for Biotechnology" 2023 (Italian Chemical Society – Interdivisional group of Biotechnology)"

Poster Title: "Designed copper metalloenzymes for the production of value-added chemicals"

Ph.D. student: Noemi Gallucci

Cycle 35

Supervisors: L. Paduano, I. Russo Krauss

1. Award "Elisa Barzagli Award-Best presentation, category PhD students - XXXII Congresso Annuale SISN"

Presentation Title: "Hierarchical Structuring of Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles Driven by Amphiphilic Coating"

2. Award "Best presentation, Young Physical Chemistry Award" - XLVIII Congresso Nazionale di Chimica Fisica"

Presentation Title: "Amphiphilic coating induces a hierarchical organization in cerium oxide nanoparticles"

Ph.D. student: Angelo Giordano

Cycle 35

Supervisor: C. De Rosa

• Award "Best presentation at the 8th Edition of the Milan Polymer Days, Milan, June 2024"

Presentation Title: "Heterophasic copolymers of isotactic polypropylene: development of methods for improving toughness without losing mechanical strength"

Ph.D. student: Carolina Cané

Cycle 36

Supervisor: A. Duilio

• Award "Best poster at Merck Young Chemists' Symposium 2021"

Poster Title: "The antimicrobial peptide Mag-2 interacts with the membran protein  BamA impairing the correct folding of E. coli membran proteins"

Ph.D. student: Gennaro Vincenzo Sannino

Cycle 36

Supervisors: M. Pavone, A.B. Muñoz-García

• Award "Poster pitch award at International Conference on Perovskite Solar Cells and Optoelectronics (PSCO23 Conference) - Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Materials Horizons"

Poster Title: "The role of Mg dopant concentration in tuning the performance of SnO₂ electron transport layer in perovskite solar cells"

Ph.D. student: Gabriele Soriano

Cycle 36

Supervisor: A. Cimmino

• Award "Best poster presentation at 13th Green Chemistry Postgraduate Summer School"

Poster Title: "Plant metabolites as stimulants and/or inhibitors of parasitic plant seed germination."

Ph.D. student: Michele Emanuele Fortunato

Cycle 37

Supervisor: M. Di Serio

• Award "Best poster presentation at CHISA 2022 (International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering, Prague) sponsored by Wiley-VCH "Chemical Engineering & Technology".

Poster Title: "Adsorption of ibuprofen on activated carbon: experimental data validation using adsorption dynamic intraparticle model (ADIM)"

Ph.D. student: Alessandra Esposito

Cycle 37

Supervisors: A. Lombardi, G. Fusco

• Award "Best poster presentation at JCC2024 (French-Italian Coordination Chemistry days congress, Strasbourg, France) sponsored by Wiley-VCH"

Poster Title: "Artificial heme-enzymes for the development of sustainable functional nanomaterials"

Ph.D. student: Vittoria Monaco

Cycle 37

Supervisor: M. Monti

• Award "Best daily poster presentation at the 48th FEBS Congress (Milan 29 June- 4 July 2024)."

Poster Title: "Study of the molecular mechanisms relevant to the interactions between pathogens and hosts"

Ph.D. student: Adriano Guida

Cycle 37

Supervisors: F. Auriemma, R. Cipullo

• Award "First prize poster Award at DPI Annual Meeting (Eindhoven November 2024)"

Poster Title: "Real Time X-rays investigation on the structural evolution of Polyethylene during tenter-frame biaxial stretching"

Ph.D. student: Junaid Ali

Cycle 37

Supervisor: L. Paduano

• Award "Best poster award at "second symposium for young chemist: Innovation and sustainability SYNC 2024"

Poster Title: "Nanocomposites Derived from Polymers and Inorganic Nanoparticles with Promising Applications"

Ph.D. student: Fulvio De Paola

Cycle 38

Supervisor: G. De Tommaso

1. "Best Poster Prize at the Analitica 2023 XXX Analytical Chemistry Division Congress, Vasto, September 2023"

Poster Title: "Adsorption of Cd (II) ions from aqueous solutions onto 

Biochar from biomass waste"

2. "Best Oral Communication at the Mediterranean Life Science Union Annual Meeting (MedLIFE-24), held in Istanbul, Türkiye, on 08 to 10 December 2024"

Presentation Title: "Remediation of Rare Earth Elements pollutants by sorption process using natural sorbent"

Ph.D. student: Giuseppina Di Stefano

Cycle 38

Supervisors: C.De Rosa, R. Di Girolamo 

• Award "Best Poster Prize at the Merck Young Chemists' Symposium 2023"

Poster Title: "Innovative polyimides-based polymers for dust mitigation"

Ph.D. student: Irene Cipollone

Cycle 38

Supervisor: M. Monti

• Award "Best oral presentation at ITPA 2025"

Presentation Title: "Unravelling the peculiar binding modes for c-Kit inhibitors using a LiP-MS approach"

Ph.D. student: Aniello Langella

Cycle 38

Supervisors: M.Pavone

• "Best Poster Award at  Second Italian Workshop on Energy Storage (IWES 2023)"

Poster Title: "Ab initio study of oxygen redox activity in layered transition metal oxides as high energy cathodes for Na-ion batteries"

Ph.D. student: Maria Petrone

Cycle 39

Supervisors: G. Di Fabio, A. Zarrelli

• "Best Poster Award at XXVIII National Congress of Società Chimica Italiana 2024, August 2024"

Poster Title: "New Promising Curcumin Mimics as Neurodegenerative Hallmarks Rescuers"

Ph.D. student: Maria Claudia Gatto

Cycle 39

Supervisors: M. Monti, D. de Pascale

• "Best Poster Presentation al Global Summit on Climate Change & Environmental Sustainability, Rome 2024"

Poster Title: "Bioremediation of potentially toxic elements: an omics perspective"

• "Best Poster Presentation al XVIII Italian Proteomics Association Annual Meeting "NEW HORIZONS IN PROTEOMICS AND METABOLOMICS" Rome 2024"

Poster Title: "Omics approaches in bioremediation of potentially toxic elements (PTEs)"

Ph.D. student: Tommaso Cogliano

Cycle 35

Supervisor: R. Tesser

• Scholarship for a 12-month research period on the topic "Vegetable Oils Epoxidation: From Batch to Continuous Process" from the Finnish Jenny & Antti Wihuri Foundation.

Thesis Title: "Vegetable oils epoxidation: from batch to continuous process"

Ph.D. student: Domenico Loreto

Cycle 35

Supervisor: A. Merlino

• STAR PLUS 2020 Program, Intervention Line 2 – Young Researchers Mobility 2020, for the development and enhancement of international collaborations for young researchers.

Thesis Title: "FUNzionalizzazione di CrisTalli di proteIne cON complessi metALlici

(FUNCTIONAL)"

Ph.D. student: Salvatore La Gatta

Cycle 35

Supervisors: A. Lombardi, F. Nastri

• "Selected among the top 10 publications in Chemical Sciences by researchers under 35 for the Primo Levi Prize 2023 (Italian Chemical Society – Young chemists' group)."

Publication Title: "A De Novo-Designed Type 3 Copper Protein Tunes Catechol Substrate Recognition and Reactivity (Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023, 62 (1), e202211552)"

Ph.D. student: Ettore Napolitano

Cycle 35

Supervisors: D. Montesarchio

• "Travel Award" for the participation to XXIV International Roundtable on Nucleosides, Nucleotides & Nucleic Acids, Stockholm, August 2022.

• "Scholarship Award" for the participation to XLVI  A. Corbella  International Summer School on Organic Synthesis – ISOS 2022 Gargnano, June 2022.

• "Scholarship Award" from the Division of Organic Chemistry of the Italian Chemical Society for participation in the "XXVII National Congress of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI)" (online), September 2021.

Thesis Title: "Development of oligonucleotide aptamers labelled with fluorescent probes for diagnostics and theranostics"

Ph.D. student: Emilia Renzi

Cycle 35

Supervisors: A. Lombardi, C. De Rosa

• "Travel Awards" for participation in the International School of Inorganic Materials (InoMat), Bardonecchia, December 2021.

Thesis Title: "Artificial metalloenzymes for the construction of functional nanostructures"

Ph.D. student: Maryam Hmoudah

Cycle 36

Supervisors: M. Di Serio, V. Russo

• Schlumberger Foundation, Faculty for the Future Fellowship, April 2022.
• Society of Swedish Literature, Environmental management and technology, January 2022.

Thesis Title: "Innovative Materials for Water Purification"

Ph.D. student: Marco Campanile

Cycle 37

Supervisor: L. Petraccone, P. Del Vecchio

• "Scolarship Award" from the Division of Physical Chemistry of the Italian Chemical Society for participation in the "49th National Congress of the Division of Physical Chemistry," Turin, September 2023.

Thesis Title: "Mechanism of action of therapeutic peptides: from membranes to intracellular targets"

Ph.D. student: Alessandra Esposito

Cycle 37

Supervisors: A. Lombardi, G. Fusco

• "Scholarship Awards" from the Division of Inorganic Chemistry of the Italian Chemical Society for participation in the "II National School on Chemical Sensors," Gargnano, October 2022.

• "Scholarship Awards" from the Division of Inorganic Chemistry of the Italian Chemical Society for participation in the "XXVIII National Congress of the Italian Chemical Society conference (SCI2024), Milan.

• "Ornella Vittorioso" Award for the best Master's Degree Thesis entitled "Artificial hemeperoxidases immobilized on nanostructured materials" awarded by the Regional Order of Chemists and Physicists of Campania at the Department of Chemical Sciences, UNINA 2023.

Thesis Title: "Amyloid fibrils for the construction of innovative, safe and sustainable functional materials"

Ph.D. student: Massimo Melchiorre

Cycle 37

Supervisors: F. Ruffo, M. E. Cucciolito

• "Scholarship Award" from the Division of Inorganic Chemistry of the Italian Chemical Society for participation in the "International School on Inorganic Materials," Bardonecchia (TO), December 2021.
• "Scholarship Award" from the Division of Electrochemistry of the Italian Chemical Society for participation in the "School on Conventional and High-Energy Spectroscopies for Inorganic, Organic, and Biomolecular Surfaces and Interfaces," online, February 2022.
• "Scholarship Award" from the Interdivisional Group of Catalysis of the Italian Chemical Society for participation in the "International Conference on Coordination Chemistry," Rimini (RN), August-September 2022.
• "Scholarship Award" from the Interdivisional Group of Green Chemistry – Sustainable Chemistry of the Italian Chemical Society for participation in the "EuChemS Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry," Salerno (SA), September 2023.
• "Scholarship Award" from the Division of Inorganic Chemistry of the Italian Chemical Society for participation in the "International Symposium on Homogeneous Catalysis," Trieste (TS), July 2024.
• "Extra-EU traineeship mobility grant" from the Erasmus+ project KA171 action, University of Havana (Cuba), September 2024.

Thesis Title: "Solvents from biomass: synthesis and applications in sustainable catalysis, storage energy devices, and cultural heritage"

Ph.D. student: Rosanna Paparo

Cycle 37

Supervisor: M. Monti

• Scholarship for the ABC Environment and Cultural Heritage Conference of the SCI 2023.

Thesis Title: "New technological approaches for wastewater treatmets"

Ph.D. student: Andrea Criscuolo

Cycle 38

Supervisors: D. Montesarchio, D. Musumeci

• "Travel Award" for participation in the XXV International Roundtable on Nucleosides, Nucleotides & Nucleic Acids, Tokyo, September 2024.

Thesis Title: "Exploring multivalency effects in G-quadruplex forming aptamers for diagnostics and theranostics."

Ph.D. student: Maddalena Paolillo

Cycle 38

Supervisor: A. Merlino

• "Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers Best Covers of 2024"

Publication Title: "Unexpected in crystallo reactivity of the potential drug bis (maltolato) oxidovanadium (IV) with lysozyme (Inorg. Chem. Front. 11, (2024), 6307-6315)"

Ph.D. student: Diego De Canditiis

Cycle 39

Supervisor: V. Busico

• "Scholarship for a 12-month research period from the organization "Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst" for carrying out research activities at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin, Germany"

Thesis Title: "Selective Hydrodefluorination of Poly- and Perfluorinated Alkanes, Alkenes, and Arenes by Means of Surface Organometallic Chemistry (SOMC) Approaches"

Ph.D. student: Maria Petrone

Cycle 39

Supervisors: G. Di Fabio, A. Zarrelli

• "Winner of GIDRM Mobility Grant 2024 Scolarship, collaboration with Prof. Daniel Oscar Cicero, University of Tor Vergata, Rome"

Thesis Title: "Design and synthesis of new natural product-based drugs for the treatment of Protein Conformational Diseases (PCDs)."

Ph.D. student: Maria Claudia Gatto

Cycle 39

Supervisors: M. Monti, D. de Pascale

• "Winner of  1° Access Call EMBRC-IT (European Marine Biological Resource Centre)"

Thesis Title: "Selection of marine fungi for heavy metals bioremediation"