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PhD in Chemical Sciences

The PhD course in Chemical Sciences is conceived at providing advanced and rigorous training to the next scientists generation, featuring innovative and independent skills in the organization and management of research and development activities, in Academia and Industry, in several chemical sectors.

Great attention is devoted to multidisciplinary aspects of research and its integration with related disciplines (such as Physics, Biology, Engineering), in order to broaden the knowledge horizon and, therefore, future job opportunities. The training includes different orientations that while sharing the scientific and methodological approach, are aimed at understanding structure/function/properties relationships in compounds and materials of different nature and simultaneously at identifying possible applications in cutting-edge sectors, ranging from catalysis, sensors, micro- and opto-electronics, biomedicine, biology and diagnostics.

The teaching and research activity is namely focused on the following topics:

  • chemistry and biochemistry of peptides, proteins and nucleic acids;
  • inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry, for the development of metallorganic complexes and synthetic metalloproteins;
  • chemistry and physics of polymeric and nanostructured materials;
  • reactivity and catalysis in industrial and biotechnological processes;
  • synthesis, structure, reaction mechanisms and bioactivity of organic molecules;
  • development of analytical methodologies of interest in the areas of environment, food safety and cultural heritage;
  • development of theoretical and computational models and methods.

For more details, it is suggested to browse the research section of the Department website (link).

 

The PhD School in Chemical Sciences, to commemorate Giulio Regeni, his sacrifice and commitment for freedom in scientic research, dedicates to him one scholarship for each PhD cycle.

 

The PhD course has a strong international imprinting, as a multiplicity of collaborative relationships with prestigious foreign institutions are cultivated (link).

Thanks to a collaboration between the "An-Najah National University", Nablus, Palestine and the University of Napoli "Federico II" in the field of higher education and scientific research, since 2016, the PhD in Chemical Sciences offers for each cycle a position for graduate students from An-Najah University.

 

Contacts

Prof. Angelina Lombardi (coordinator)

Prof. Alessandra Napolitano (coordinator XXXVIII cycle)

Dott. Annarita Quartuccio (secretary)

dotscichi@unina.it


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Active Cycles

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Awards

Premi conferiti agli studenti del Dottorato di ricerca in Scienze Chimiche

Cicli 35-39

 

Premi Miglior Tesi di Dottorato

Ph.D. student:  Noemi Gallucci (XXXV Ciclo)                         Supervisor: L. Paduano

  • Premio Semerano 2024, per la migliore tesi di dottorato di ricerca in Chimica Fisica

Titolo Tesi "Hybrid nanostructures systems: physico-chemical properties and applications in biomedical and technological field"

 

Ph.D. student: Salvatore La Gatta (XXXV Ciclo)       Supervisors: A. Lombardi, F. Nastri

  • Best PhD thesis award 2023 in Inorganic Chemistry in the field of bioinorganic chemistry (Italian Chemical Society – Division of Inorganic Chemistry).

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

 

Ph.D student: Francesca Fasulo            Supervisors: M. Pavone, A. B. Muñoz-García

  • Premio di Dottorato Giuseppe del Re 2024 attribuito dalla Divisione di Chimica Teorica e Computazionale della SCI "per l'originale contributo nel campo delle metodologie teorico-computazionali applicate alla chimica dell'accumulo e della conversione dell'energia".

Titolo Tesi: Multiscale Modelling of Heterogeneous Interfaces for Energy Conversion and Storage"

 

 

Premi Best Poster and Oral Presentation

Ph.D student: Rodolfo Esposito (XXXV Ciclo)                       Supervisor: G. D'Errico

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

Titolo poster: Biosurfactant mixtures: Towards the design of sustainable green formulations.

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

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

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

Titolo poster: Monorhamnolipid mixtures: a bioinspired strategy for eco-sustainable spreading formulations.

 

Ph.D student: Ferran Nieto-Fabregat (XXXV Ciclo)            Supervisors: A. Silipo, R. Marchetti

  • "Best poster presentation - Convegno scuola avanzata di chimica dei Carboidrati" 2022

Titolo poster: DC-SIGN Recognizes the Outer Core of Escherichia Coli Lipooligosaccharide.

  • Best poster presentation at 30th International Carbohydrate Symposium Brazil (ICS2022)

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

 

Ph.D. student: Salvatore La Gatta (XXXV Ciclo)            Supervisors: A. Lombardi, F. Nastri

  • 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 (XXXV Ciclo)     Supervisor: L. Paduano, I. Russo Krauss

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

Titolo presentazione: Hierarchical Structuring of Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles Driven by Amphiphilic Coating.

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

Titolo presentazione: Amphiphilic coating induces a hierarchical organization in cerium oxide nanoparticles.

 

Ph.D  student: Angelo Giordano (XXXV Ciclo)            Supervisor: C. De Rosa.

  • "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 (XXXVI Ciclo)    Supervisor: A. Duilio

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

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

 

Ph.D student: Gabriele Soriano (XXXVI Ciclo)        Supervisor: A. Cimmino

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

Titolo poster: Plant metabolites as stimulants and/or inhibitors of parasitic plant seed germination.

 

Ph.D student: Michele Emanuele Fortunato (XXXVII Ciclo)            Supervisor: M. Di Serio

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

Titolo poster: Adsorption of ibuprofen on activated carbon: experimental data validation using adsorption dynamic intraparticle model (ADIM).

 

 

ALTRI PREMI

Ph.D student: Tommaso Cogliano (XXXV Ciclo)            Supervisor: R. Tesser

  • Borsa di studio per un periodo di ricerca di 12 mesi sul tema `Vegetable Oils Epoxidation: From batch to Continuous Process´ dalla Finnish Jenny & Annti Wihuri Foundation.

Titolo tesi: Vegetable oils epoxidation: from batch to continuous process.

 

Ph.D student: Domenico Loreto (XXXV Ciclo)            Supervisor: A. Merlino

  • "Programma STAR PLUS 2020 Linea di intervento 2 – Mobilità Giovani Ricercatori 2020" per lo sviluppo e il potenziamento delle collaborazioni internazionali dei giovani ricercatori.

Titolo progetto: FUNzionalizzazione di CrisTalli di proteIne cON complessi metALlici

(FUNCTIONAL).

 

Ph.D. student: Salvatore La Gatta (XXXV Ciclo)            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 (XXXV Ciclo)            Supervisor: D. Montesarchio

  • "Travel Award" per la partecipazione alla XXIV International Roundtable on Nucleosides, Nucleotides & Nucleic Acids, Stockholm, Agosto 2022.
  • "Scholarship Award" per la partecipazione alla XLVI  A. Corbella  International Summer School on Organic Synthesis – ISOS 2022 Gargnano, Giugno 2022.
  • "Scholarship Award" della Divisione di Chimica Organica della Società Chimica Italiana per la partecipazione al "XXVII National Congress of Società Chimica Italiana (SCI)" (online), Settembre 2021.

Titolo tesi: Development of oligonucleotide aptamers labelled with fluorescent probes for diagnostics and theranostics.

 

Ph.D student: Emilia Renzi (XXXV Ciclo)         Supervisors: A. Lombardi, C. De Rosa

  • "Travel Awards" per la partecipazione all'International School of Inorganic Materials (InoMat), Bardonecchia, Dicembre 2021.

Titolo tesi: Artificial metalloenzymes for the construction of functional nanostructures.

 

Ph.D student: Alessandra Esposito (XXXVII Ciclo)            Supervisors: A. Lombardi, G. Fusco

  • "Scholarship Awards" della Divisione di Chimica Inorganica della Società Chimica Italiana per la partecipazione alla "II Scuola Nazionale sui Sensori Chimici" Gargnano, Ottobre 2022.

Titolo tesi: Amyloid fibrils for the construction of innovative, safe and sustainable functional materials.

 

Ph.D student: Vittoria Monaco (XXXVII Ciclo)            Supervisor: M. Monti

  • "SIB bursary award" per la partecipazione al "PROTEINE 2002" meeting, Pisa, Maggio 2022.

Titolo tesi: Study of the molecular mechanisms relevant to the interactions between pathogens and hosts

 


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