Adriana Pietropaolo
Prof. Adriana Pietropaolo
Associate Professor CHEM-03/A
Università “Magna Græcia” di Catanzaro
Researcher unique identifiers: ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0955-2058.
Email: apietropaolo@unicz.it
MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS
a. Development of chiral simulation methods and protocols to boost chiral material implementation. The simulation methodology is based on chiral free-energy based approaches, quantum-chemical methods with their timede-pendent implementation, absorbance and luminescence predictions, including circular dichroism and circularly polarized photoluminescence, CISS (chirality-induced spin selectivity) simulations.
b. Fundamental investigations of the chemical-physical processes that enhance the emissions in chiral materials.
c. Predictions of the chiral properties (i.e. luminescence, CISS) of new green hybrid chiral materials (i.e. chiral perovskites) without toxic components.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
2008: PhD in Chemistry, University of Bologna. Supervisor: Prof. Claudio Zannoni.
2005: Diploma di Licenza summa cum laude, Scuola Superiore di Catania.
Supervisors: Prof. Enrico Rizzarelli, Prof. Claudio Zannoni.
2004: Master’s degree in chemistry summa cum laude, University of Catania.
Supervisor: Prof. Enrico Rizzarelli.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2025: Visiting Associate Professor, Université Paris Cité.
2020: Associate Professor, University of Catanzaro.
2012/2013: Visiting assistant Professor at Hokkaido University Catalysis research center.
2011: Visiting assistant Professor at Forschungszentrum-Jülich.
2010: Assistant Professor, University of Catanzaro
2008/2010: Postdoctoral researcher at ETH-Zürich (Prof. Michele Parrinello).
2007: Visiting PhD student at University of Oxford, Chemistry Research Laboratory (CRL).
TRACK RECORD
H index=24, total number of citations 2000 (from Scopus April 2025). Number of scientific Publications: 74 (including Nature Methods, Chem, JACS, Angewandte Chemie Int. Edit). Current position: Associate Professor – General and Inorganic Chemistry, leading the laboratory of nanoscale simulations and chemical modeling (Nanochem).
FUNDED PROJECTS
National Coordinator of PRIN 2022 (190kEuro).
Research unit PI in various PRIN (2022PNRR, 2017, 2015), PON and National Centre HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing projects, with total funding exceeding 400kEuro.
Partnership for Advancing Computing in Europe PRACE(2015) Scientific Coordinator 15M core hours; Partnership for Advancing Computing in Europe PRACE (2012) Scientific Coordinator 24M core hours.
Principal Investigator of supercomputing national projects within ISCRA initiative >15M core hours (Leonardo, Marconi100, Fermi, Marconi, Eurora, Galileo, Galileo100). John von Neumann Institute for Computing (2011) – HGR07 (Principal Investigator).
HPC Europa2 research program (2011) Scientific Coordinator.
