Assunta Marrocchi is an Associate
Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Perugia (Italy), Department of
Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology. Following
her Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences at the same institution, she obtained postdoctoral
and academic research positions, and she joined the Radboud University Nijmegen
(The Netherlands) and the Northwestern University (IL, USA) as a visiting
scientist. Her education and
professional career are essentially focused on organic synthesis - themed
research, including advanced organic materials and their application in organic
electronics; sustainable conversion of biomass into high-added-value chemicals,
fuels, and materials. She is the leading author/co-author of more than 120 JCR
papers, five book chapters with ISBN and DOI, two issued patents and two filed
patent applications. She recently edited the book, “Sustainable Strategies in
organic electronics” (Elsevier-Woodhead, 2022).
Prof. Saulius Kaciulis received his M.Sc. degree in physics and Ph.D. degree in semiconductor physics from the University of Vilnius, Lithuania, in 1977 and 1983, respectively. From 1976 to 1997, he was employed at the Semiconductor Physics Institute in Vilnius. Since 1985, he has started to specialize in the techniques of solid-state surface analysis XPS, AES, SIMS, etc. From 1992 to 1996, he was a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Materials Chemistry, National Research Council (CNR), Italy. From 1997 to 2020, he was a Senior Researcher at the Institute for the Study of Nanostructured Materials, CNR, Rome, Italy. Since 2020, he has been a Director of Research at the Institute for the Study of Nanostructured Materials, ISMN, National Research Council. His research interests are surface analysis and depth profiling of innovative solid-state materials, including thin films and heterostructures, anti-wear and corrosion-resistant coatings, biocompatible materials, nano-structured and 2D materials. He is a co-author of over 250 scientific papers and two books.
Dr. Florence Vacandio has been an Assistant Professor at the Aix-Marseille University since 2001. After a Master’s degree in Materials Science, and a Ph.D. defended in 2000 devoted to the “Electrochemical behavior of AlN coatings elaborated from Cathodic Sputtering”, she then continued her training during a one-year postdoctoral internship at the University “La Sapienza” of Rome where she continued to work on the topic of anti-corrosion coatings. Since 2017, she has been the head of the “Electrochemistry of Materials” (ElMa) group within the MADIREL laboratory. The group’s research activities concern the development of materials via electrochemical (electrodeposition, nanostructuration, electropolymerization) or other methods (PVD, electrospinning, etc.) and their applications in the field of Energy conversion, Energy storage, Corrosion, and Health. More recently, she worked on the development of innovative electrodes for various electrochemical reactions of interest, such as the integration of catalytic cores in solid electrodes for the reduction of molecules of interest.
