EDUCATION and ACADEMIC CAREER
1986: Master Degree in Chemistry at the University of
Bologna.
1991: PhD from the University of Bologna. November 1989 and
November 1988: visiting scientist at the Risoe National Laboratory,
Roskilde, Denmark.
1991-1992: Postdoc (Fellowship from Italian National Research Council
(NRC) for studies abroad) at the NRC of
Canada, Ottawa.
1992-1993: Research Associate at the NRC of Canada, Ottawa.
1994 and 1995: Visiting scientist at the National Research Council (NRC)
1993: Assistant professor (Ricercatore) at the
Department of Chemistry of the University of Bologna
2001: Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry
of the University of Bologna.
2016: Full Professor at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Bologna.
ACADEMIC COUNCILS AND GOVERNANCE INSTITUTIONS
- 2007-2009 Member of the board of the interdivisional group of computational chemistry of the Italian Chemical Society
- Since 2014 she is a member of the PhD Council in Chemistry.
- 2015-2021 Degree Program Director of the Bachelor in Chemistry and Materials Chemistry.
- 2015-2021 Member of the Science School Council as representative of Degree Program Directors.
- 2015-2021 Member of the Didactic Committee of the Department
- 2015-2021 Member of the Department Council ("Giunta") as Degree Program Director
- 2021-2024 Member of the Department Council ("Giunta") as representative of full professors
- 2023-2025 - Member of the board of the division of computational and theoretical chemistry of the Italian Chemical Society
- 2023-: Member of the Self Steering Committee (SSC)Focus Area Future Materials (Una Europa)
- 2024-: Member of the Quality Assurance Committee (QA) of the Department with delegation to the PhD.
PUBLICATIONS and H_INDEX
F. Negri is the author of more than 180 scientific publications
in refereed international journals and of four book chapters.
h-index: 44 (WOS), 45 (Scopus), 48 (Google Scholar).
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-0359-0128
F. Negri has been invited to give talks in national and
international congresses and seminar lessons in several
schools.
Refereeing activity:
Regular referee of international journals such as the
Journal of Physical Chemistry, Carbon, Chemistry of Materials,
Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Physics and
Chemical Physics Letters, Journal of Materials Chemistry and
several others.
Referee of a number of national (FIRB, PRIN,
ISCRA) and international projects (ACS Petroleum Research Fund,
USA; EU FP7; Technology Foundation, Olanda) .
2013 Member of the CHE
panel and refereed 18 Marie Curie projects, FP7, of
these 4 where IIF, 3 IOF and 11 IEF. She participated to
the consensus meetings in Bruxelles and was rapporteur for 5 of
these projects.
2014 Member of the CHE
panel and refereed 19 H2020-MSCA-IF-2014 projects. She
participated to the consensus meetings in Bruxelles and was
rapporteur for 6 of these projects.
2015 Member of the Chemistry panel and refereed 17 H2020-MSCA-IF-2015 projects. She participated to the consensus meetings in Bruxelles and was rapporteur for 6 of these projects.
2016. Member of the Committee (Jury) for the award of the 'habilitation to direct research' at the University of Bordeaux.
2019 member of the selection committee for an open position as Associate Professor in Physical Chemistry at the University of Girona (UdG) in the framework of the Serra Húnter Program (http://serrahunter.gencat.cat/en/), sponsored by the government and from universities in Catalonia
2020: evaluation of three projects “Grants for the incorporation of postdoctoral research staff into the Catalan science and technology system, within the Beatriu de Pinós program (BP2019),” Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
2022 Referee for the Regular FONDECYT National Projects Competition, National Research and Development Agency (ANID) of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation of Chile
2022 External reviewer for the 2022 ERC Starting grant call
2024 Reviewer of Veni research proposals from the Dutch Research Council
AWARDS
F. Negri received the Prize "Federchimica: for a smart future"
in 1998.
MEMBERSHIPS
- Member of the "Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per la
Scienza e la Tecnologia dei Materiali" (INSTM).
- Member of the Italian Chemical Society
- Member of the Editorial board of "Micromachine", Secion C "Chemistry", a peer-reviewed open access journal from MDPI
PhD Evaluation Committees
- September 1998: Member of the PhD Evaluation Committee at the School of Science, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
- September 2012: Member of the PhD Evaluation Committee at the Chemistry Department, University of Malaga, Spain.
- March 2013: Member of the PhD Evaluation Committee at the Politecnico di Milano (PhD in materials engineering), Italy.
- April 2017, External Referee for PhD thesis University of Parma
- September 2020, “Opponent” PhD Thesis defense, University of Tampere, Finland
- February 2021, Member of the PhD Evaluation Committee, University of Barcelona, Spain
- February 2021, External referee PhD thesis at University of Parma, Italy
- October 2021, Member of the PhD Evaluation Committee, University of Parma
- October 2022, Member of the PhD Evaluation Committee, University of Basque Country, Donostia, Spain
- July 2023, Member of the Comité de Suivì of a PhD, University of Bpordeaux, France
- May 2024, Member of the PhD Evaluation Committee, University of Parma
Organization Coordination of meetings-conferences
- 2005: Chair of the session "radiation-matter interaction and excited state dynamics" of the VII Convegno "Complex Systems: structure, properties, reactivity and dynamics" held in Alghero, 13-15 June 2005.
- 2009: Chair of a session of the international meeting "Transport and molecular organization in Organic and Biorganic Electronics: a MODECOM workshop", 14 January 2009, Bologna, Italy.
- 2012: Member of the scientific and organizing local committee of the Convegno GISR 2012 "II CONGRESSO NAZIONALE di SPETTROSCOPIE RAMAN ed EFFETTI OTTICI NON LINEARI", 6-8 june 2012, Bologna, Italy
- 2017: Member of the organizing committee of the “XVII GIORNATA DI CHIMICA DELL’EMILIA ROMAGNA, Chimica: trampolino di lancio per l’imprenditorialità” Bologna - 01/12/2017.
- 2018: Member of the organizing committee of the “XLV Congresso Nazionale di Chimica Fisica”, June 25-28, 2018, Bologna, Italy.
- 2023: Member of the scientific committee of the "VIII Congresso Nazionale della Divisione di Chimica Teorica e Computazionale della SCI", September 20-22, 2023, Pisa, Italy.
RESEARCH PROJECTS:
2023-2025: PI of the PRIN Project “Design, synthesis, and characterization of inert Multifunctional diradicaloidS for organic light-emitting transistors”
2023-2025: participation to the Next Generation EU under the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR M4C2, Investiment 1.4— Call for tender n. 3138 dated 16/12/2021—National Centre for HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing (HPC)—Spoke 6.
2019-2020: ISCRA award for computational resources.
2002- RFO and VRA funding from the University of Bologna.
2010-2012 PRIN Project 'Study of ultra-fast intra-and inter-molecular photoinduced processes in natural and artificial photosensors'.
2006-2009 collaboration contract with the INSTM Unit of Politecnico di Milano within the FIRB project contract RBNE033KMA_006 "Molecular compounds and hybrid nanostructured materials with resonant and non-resonant optical properties for photonic devices".
2003 - 2007 coordinator of the Bologna group belonging to the Italian Unit of the Politecnico di Milano participating to the FIRB Project "Carbon based micro e nano structures", contract RBNE019NKS;
2001-2004: coordinator of the Bologna group belonging to the Italian Unit of the Politecnico di Milano participating to the European Project "MAC-MES: Molecular approach to carbon based materials for energy storage", contract n. G5RD-CT2001-00571, website http://pcsiwa12.rett.polimi.it/~macmes/partners.htm .;
1999-2001: scientific official responsible for the Bologna unit, of the INTAS Project 97-11894 "Linear and Nonlinear Optical Electronic Spectroscopy of Matrix-isolated Fullerenes and Fullerene Derivatives" in collaboration with Prof. Roland Levy (Strasburgo, Francia), Dr. Alexander Eletskii (Mosca, Russia), Dr. Yulii Grushko (Gatchina, Russia) and Dr. Boris Razbirin (St. Petersburg, Russia);
1994-1996 principal investigator, with Dr. John Morton from NRC of Canada, Ottawa, of a NATO collaboration (CRG n. 940108) "EPR and theoretical studies of free radical addition to fullerenes";
1988-1993 participation to the NATO collaboration grant (CRG n. 880137) "Characterization of the lowest triplet states of small linear polyenes", with Dr. Robert Wilbrandt (Danimarca) and Prof. Giorgio Orlandi (Bologna);
