People

Group 2023 (left to right): Gianfranco Pacchioni, Viola Caruggi, Matteo Spotti, Livia Giordano, Giorgia Gavinelli, Chiara Staccini, Matteo Lovato, Sergio Tosoni, Nicole Ceribelli, Ilaria Barlocco, Federico Piciacchia, Valentina Sanella, Giovanni Di Liberto

Staff

Full Professor, Editor-in-chief Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter

Tel: +39 02 6448 5219 

Fax: +39 02 6448 5400 

E-mail: gianfranco.pacchioni@unimib.it 

Full CV English, Full CV Italian 

ORCID: 0000-0002-4749-0751 

Google Scholar Profile

Biography: Former pro-Rector for Research of the University of Milan Bicocca. For the period 2011-2013 he was chairman of the Division of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI). He is a member of the National Academy of Lincei (Rome), the Academia Europaea (London), the European Academy of Science (Liege), and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. 

Research Interests: Insulating and Semiconducing Oxides, Defects and Dopants in Oxides, Supported Metal Clusters on Inorganic Surfaces, Two-dimensional Oxides (Ultrathin Films), Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxide Heterojunctions. Photocatalysis, heterogeneous catalysis, catalysis by single atoms. 

Prof. Livia Giordano

Associate Professor

Tel: +39 02 6448 5180 

E-mail: livia.giordano@unimib.it 


Biography: Livia Giordano is an associate professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca since 2021. She obtained her PhD in Materials Science from the University of Milano-Bicocca in 2002 and was appointed research associate in the same department in 2007. In 2013 she joined the Electrochemical and Energy Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was appointed Research Scientist from 2016 to 2021.

Research interests: Livia Giordano’s research focuses on first-principles calculations of interfacial phenomena and reaction mechanisms to inform material design in electrochemistry and heterogenous catalysis. Her interests include reactivity of oxides surfaces, oxide thin films, metal-oxide, and oxide-liquid interfaces.

Biography: He obtained his PhD in Chemistry in 2007 from the University of Torino. He worked as a postdoc at the Humboldt University in Berlin and at the University of Barcelona. In Bicocca since 2013, he was appointed research associate in 2016 and associate professor in 2022.

Research Interests: Insulating and Semiconducing Oxides, Supported Metal Clusters on Inorganic Surfaces, Two-dimensional Oxides (Ultrathin Films) and Dichalcogenides, Materials for Batteries.

Giovanni Di Liberto

Research Associate

Tel.: +39-02 6448 5165 

E-mail: giovanni.diliberto@unimib.it 

ORCID: 0000-0003-4289-2732

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Biography: He graduated at the University of Milan in 2015 where he also got his PhD in Chemistry in 2019. He then joined prof. Pacchioni's group at the University of Milano Bicocca, where he was appointed research associate in 2020. He spent some months as a visiting researcher within the HPC Europe program at the University of Barcelona under the supervision of prof. Francesc Illas. 

Research Interests: Insulating and Semiconducing Oxides, Defects and Dopants in Oxides, Supported Metal Clusters on Inorganic Surfaces, Two-dimensional Oxides (Ultrathin Films)

Collaborators

Mirali Jahangirzadeh 

Post-Doc

Tel.: +39-02 6448 5232 

E-mail: mirali.jahangirzadehvarjovi@unimib.it

 

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7700-9973

Research Interests: 2D Materials, materials design, materials science, surface science,  heterogeneous catalysis  

Ilaria Barlocco 

Post-Doc

Tel.: +39-02 6448 5232 

E-mail: ilaria.barlocco@unimib.it

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5568-9648

Research Interests: heterogeneous catalysis, supported clusters, single atoms catalysis 

Federico Piciacchia

PhD Student

Tel.: +39-02 6448 5232

E-mail: f.piciacchia@campus.unimib.it

Research Interests: electrodes, electrolytes, materials for energy storage, modeling of biological systems

Nicole Ceribelli

PhD Student

Tel.: +39-02 6448 5232

E-mail: n.ceribelli@campus.unimib.it

Research Interests: electrodes, electrolytes, materials for energy storage, electrodes for sensors

Shuai Xu

PhD Student

Tel.: +39-02 6448 5232

E-mail: shuaixu012@hotmail.com or shuai.xu@unimib.it

Research Interests: single atom catalysis, photocatalysis, hydrogen production, nanomaterials

Luis Antonio Cipriano Marcos (from february 2024)

Post-doc

Tel.: +39-02 6448 5232 

E-mail: luisaciprianom@gmail.com

Research Interests: Insulating and Semiconducing Oxides, Defects and Dopants in Oxides, Single atom catalysis

Clara Saetta

Master student.

Tel.: +39-02 6448 5232 

E-mail: c.saetta@campus.unimib.it

Research Interests: Single atom catalysis

Elisabetta Inico

Research contract

Tel.: +39-02 6448 5232 

E-mail: elisabetta.inico@unimib.it

Research Interests: Single atom catalysis, materials for batteries

Former Members

Lara Ferrighi, Diego Fittipaldi, Stefano Prada, Rob Burgess, Massimo Rosa, Federico Gallino, Gloria Capano, Fenggong Wang, Andrea Massé, Alberto Roldan, Federico Gallino, Giorgio Palma, Sabrina Sicolo, Islam Mohammad, Gloria Preda, Umberto Martinez, Fabrizio Cinquini, Matteo Frigerio, Emanuele Finazzi, Riccardo Binda, Annalisa Del Vitto, Filippo Aroffo, Matteo Baistrocchi, Andrea Scagnelli, Cristiana Di Valentin, Philomena Schlexer, Antonio Ruiz Puigdollers, Elisa Albanese, Matteo Gerosa, Tiffany Hsin-Yi Chen, Gianluca Fazio, Ho Viet Thang, Jannik Roth, Tilak Das, Farahnaz Maleki, Matteo Lovato

Previous Group Pictures

Group 2022

Luis Antonio Cipriano Marcos, Tilak Das, Gianfranco Pacchioni, Livia Giordano, Sergio Tosoni, Ilaria Barlocco, Farahnaz Maleki, Clara Saetta, Valentina Sanella, Giovanni Di Liberto

Group 2021

Left to right: Gianfranco Pacchioni, Sergio Tosoni, Carola Zanin, Giovanni Di Liberto, Tilak Das, Luis Antonio Cipriano Marcos, Farahnaz Maleki.

Group 2020

Left to right: Giovanni Di Liberto, Farahnaz Maleki, Sergio Tosoni, Gianfranco Pacchioni, Tilak Das, Luis Antonio Cipriano Marcos (Not present: Ornella Fatale and Jannik Roth). 

Group 2019

Left to right: Luis Antonio Cipriano Marcos, Thang Viet Ho, Farahnaz Maleki, Gianfranco Pacchioni, Tilak Das, Giovanni Di Liberto, Sergio Tosoni. 

Group 2018

Left to right: Thang Viet Ho, Sergio Tosoni, Luis Antonio Cipriano Marcos (visiting student), Gianfranco Pacchioni. 

Group 2017

Left to right: Gianfranco Pacchioni, Francesc Illas (guest), Sergio Tosoni, Elisa Albanese, Philomena Schlexer, Cequn Li (visiting student), Antonio Ruiz Puigdollers, Thang Viet Ho, Farahnaz Maleki. 

Group 2016

Left to right: Costanza Ronchi, Martina Datteo, Cristiana Di Valentin, Daniele Selli, Elisa Albanese, Antonio Ruiz Puigdollers, Philomena Schlexer, Sergio Tosoni, Tiffany Chen, Gianfranco Pacchioni. 

Group 2015

Left to right: Gianfranco Pacchioni, Cristiana Di Valentin, Elisa Albanese, Sergio Tosoni, Lara Ferrighi, Martina Datteo, Tiffany Chen, Davide Spinnato, Philomena Schlexer, Antonio Ruiz Puigdollers, Gianluca Fazio. 

Group 2014

Left to right: Livia Giordano, Tiffany Chen, Gianfranco Pacchioni, Lara Ferrighi, Antonio Ruiz Puigdollers, Philomena Schlexer, Diego Fittipaldi, Daniele Perilli, Cristiana Di Valentin, Lorenzo Ferraro. 

Group 2013

Left to right: Lorenzo Ferraro, Livia Giordano, Gianfranco Pacchioni, Lara Ferrighi, Sergio Tosoni, Diego Fittipaldi, Stefano Prada, Philomena Schlexer, Martina Datteo, Tiffany Chen, Cristiana Di Valentin 

Group 2012

Left to right: Lorenzo Ferraro, Gianfranco Pacchioni, Livia Giordano, Diego Fittipaldi, Marco Arrigoni, Tiffany Chen, Stefano Prada, Mario Trioni, Cristiana Di Valentin, Bob Burgess 


Group 2011

Left to right: Fenggong Wang, Cristiana Di Valentin, Lorenzo Ferraro, Livia Giordano, Stefano Prada, Massimo Rosa, Federico Gallino, Gloria Preda, Gloria Capano, Gianfranco Pacchioni 

Group 2009

Left to right: Andrea Massé, Alberto Roldan, Federico Gallino, Giorgio Palma, Sabrina Sicolo, Islam Mohammad, Gianfranco Pacchioni, Gloria Preda, Umberto Martinez, Livia Giordano, Lorenzo Ferraro 

Group 2007

Left to right: Gianfranco Pacchioni, Lorenzo Ferraro, Cristiana Di Valentin, Livia Giordano, Sabrina Sicolo, Fabrizio Cinquini, Matteo Frigerio, Umberto Martinez, Emanuele Finazzi 

Group 2005

Left to right: Gianfranco Pacchioni, Riccardo Binda, Livia Giordano, Emanuele Finazzi, Fabrizio Cinquini, Annalisa Del Vitto, Filippo Aroffo, Matteo Baistrocchi, Cristiana Di Valentin, Andrea Scagnelli, Lorenzo Ferraro