WINNERS BIOGRAPHIES
Matteo Mauro
Matteo Mauro was born on November 27th 1983 and he is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität and at the Center for Nanotechnology in Münster (Germany) in the group of Prof. Luisa De Cola.
He began to study Chemistry at University of Bari in 2001, where he
obtained his B.Sc. cum laude in 2004, defending a thesis on the synthesis
of palladium hydrido complexes as catalysts for hydrogenation reactions,
work performed under the supervision of Prof. Michele Aresta. Afterwards,
he moved to University of Milan, where in 2004 got his M.Sc. degree in
Chemical Sciences and started to work with luminescent transition metal
complexes, under the supervision of Prof. Giuseppe D’Alfonso. In the same
research group, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Sciences in 2009
with a study on synthesis, photophysical and theoretical characterization of
novel metal complexes based on rhenium and iridium, and their
application in light-emitting devices. During his Ph.D. he spent six months
at Ciba/BASF, in Basel (Switzerland), in the research group, led by Dr.
Andreas Hafner in the frame of the project: “Borse di ricerca applicata per
studenti di dottorato” funded by Regione Lombardia and working on a
project dealing with iridium complexes
He continued and completed the project in Prof. Luisa De Cola’s research group, in Münster. In Germany he spent eight months during his Ph.D. and there he also characterized some of his metal complexes and developed metallo surfactants.
