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Dr. G. Valenti received his master degree, summa cum laude, in
Chemistry from University of Bologna in 2006 (he spent six months
as a “Socrates-Erasmus” fellow at University of Burgos, Spain). He
conducted his doctoral studies at the same University, in the
electrochemistry group (Prof. F. Paolucci) of Department of
Chemistry, reaching the PhD in Chemical Sciences in 2010. From 2010
to 2012 he got research fellowship in the Electrochemistry group,
directed by Prof. F. Paolucci, at the department of Chemistry "G.
Ciamician". From 2013 to 2020 he has been assistant professor at the University of Bologna, Department of Chemistry
"G. Ciamician" and in 2020 he become associate professor.
He spent different research periods as visiting scientist: at
Biomedical Diagnostics Institute in Dublin City University
(group of Prof. R. Forster, six months), at University of Texas
at Austin (group of A. J. Bard, three months), at the Centre
de Recherché Paul Pascal (CRPP), CNRS Bordeaux (group of Dr.
Alain Pénicaud ), JAPAN and at the University of California Santa Barbara (Plaxco). In addition, he has also taken part in a number of European
research projects collaborating actively with international
research groups and coordinating a British-Italian partnership
project with University of Sheffield (UK) (group of Prof.
Thomas).
During his career, he has gained expertise in different
experimental fields, such as molecular and supramolecular
electrochemiluminescence and its biosensor application,
electrochemistry (voltammetric and amperometric techniques in ultra
dry solvents, fast scan rate voltammetry at ultramicroelectrodes,
in situ low-temperature UV-Vis-NIR spectroelectrochemistry, and
electrochemical impedance spectroscopy), micro and nano electrode
fabrication, surface functionalization, scanning probe microscopies
(AFM, STM and SECM), photophysical techniques (spectrophotometry
UV-Vis) and confocal microscopes.
Awarded
Dr. G. Valenti was awarded with the "Metrohm Italia s.r.l.",
prize for his Master degree research, by the Italian
Chemical Society, division of Electrochemistry (June 2006) and
International Society of Electrochemistry: "ISE Travel Award for
Young Electrochemists" (2013). He also has been
supported by various fellowships: Project “Socrate-Erasmus” from
University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, project in collaboration
between University of Bologna and STMicroelectronic (2007-2008),
“Marco Polo” from University of Bologna (2008, 2011), Project
SENSTOX from University of Trieste (2009, for this project he also
produce a video animation to explain, out of the scientific
community, the research results URL: http://youtu.be/DwuXHWBbo_0),
Project “PRIN” (Italian ministry of University and Research MIUR)
Post-doc fellowship from University of Bologna (2010-2011). He is also coordiantor of tw MSCA project: Doctoral network ECLectic(GA 101119951) and Staff exchange NanoImmunoERA (https://nanoimmunoera-project.eu/)
Publications
Dr G. Valenti co-authored 101 published articles (h-index 34) and 2 more have been submitted to high-impact
peer-reviewed Journals, including Nature Communication, JACS, Angewandte Chemie, ACS Nano, Chemistry an European
Journal, Chemistry an Asian Journal, Inorganic Chemistry, Journal
of Physical Chemistry C and B, Journal of Material Chemistry
(corresponding author for 6of them).
Schools and international meetings
He presented the results of his scientific activity at several
national and international scientific meetings, giving 11 oral
presentations and 8 posters . He attended several schools focus on
SPM and immunoassay. He was also co-organized three different
international conference: “8th ECHEMS” in
Bertinoro: http://www.echems8th.unimore.it/,
“ChemOnTubes” in Riva del Garda:
http://chemontubes2014.crpp-bordeaux.cnrs.fr/index-anglais.html,
“ECL 2014: International meeting on Electrogenerate
Chemiluminescence” in Bertinoro: http://www.ciam.unibo.it/ecl2014
