Irene Conti

Senior assistant professor (fixed-term)

Department of Industrial Chemistry "Toso Montanari"

Academic discipline: CHIM/02 Physical Chemistry

Curriculum vitae

• Academic titles: PhD (in Theoretical Chemistry)

• Present position: Senior assistant professor (fixed-term), Department of Industrial Chemistry "Toso Montanari", Università degli Studi di Bologna, Viale del Risorgimento, 4, 40136 BOLOGNA (Tel: 051-2093722; mobile: 320-1848385; E-mail: irene.conti@unibo.it).

Academic discipline: CHIM/02 Physical Chemistry

• EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

- Laurea in Chemistry from the University of Bologna, academic year 2002/2003.Diploma thesis in the group of Prof. Fernando Bernardi and Marco Garavelli:“Computatinal Study of the Photoisomerization Mechanism of substitued Schiff Protonated Bases and of the (1-Cyclohexenyl)phenyldiazene”

- PhD in Theoretical Chemistry (2005-2007) under the supervision of Prof. G. Orlandi and M. Garavelli, Chemistry department, University of Bologna.PhD thesis title: ‘Photophysics and Photochemistry of conjugated organic systems of Biological and Technological interest'.

- Postdoctoral researcher associate in the Department of Industrial Chemistry at the University of Bologna, Group leader Prof. Marco Garavelli (01/08/2018 - 31/07/2019).: 'Modelling the photoinduced events and time resolved spectroscopy in nucleobases and thionucleobases'.

- Postdoctoral researcher associate in the Department of Industrial Chemistry at the University of Bologna, Group leader Prof. Marco Garavelli (01/01/2017 - 31/12/2017). European Project 7PQ ERC Advanced Grant 2011 (Multidisciplinary-CoInvestigator Grant), title ‘Modelling photoinduced events and transient spectroscopies in complex photoactive molecular materials’.

- Postdoctoral researcher associate in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Bologna, Group leader Prof. Marco Garavelli (01/01/2015 - 31/12/2016). Research Project: ‘Modelling photoinduced processes in polinucleotides for characterization by two-dimensional ultraviolet spectroscopy', UE PROJECT ERC STRATUS.

- Postdoctoral researcher associate in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Bologna, Group leader Prof. Marco Garavelli (2012 - 2014). Research Project ‘Simulazioni di processi fotoindotti in sistemi biologici e biomimetici'.

- Postdoctoral researcher associate in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Bologna, Group leader Prof. F. Zerbetto – G. Orlandi (2009 - 2012). Research Project: ‘Dinamica di molecole biologiche eccitate'.

- Postdoctoral researcher associate in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Bologna, Group leader Prof. G. Orlandi (2008-2009). Research Project: ‘Dinamica di molecole biologiche eccitate'.

• MATERNITY LEAVES:

FIRST: 20/10/2009 - 25/07/2010

SECOND: 27/08/2011 - 29/05/2012

THIRD: 23/01/2013 - 31/10/2013

• EDITORIAL ACTIVITY:

TOPIC EDITOR of the open access journal Molecules from MDPI academic open access publisher

web site: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/molecules/topic_editors

• REFEREE ACTIVITY:

- Chemistry-A European Journal, Wiley-VCH

- Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, ACS Publications

- Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Royal Society of Chemistry

- Chemical Physics, Elsevier

• PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES:

24 June 2021

Symposium on Bioluminescence, Chemiluminescence and Luminescence Spectrometry. XIX ISLS 21st ISBC. INVITED LECTURE, Title: "The fate of excited state of TCL acridine-based 1,2-dioxetane derivatives: Singlet or Triplet? A theoretical approach to evaluate the effect of substituents on their luminescence properties."(Autori:Irene Conti, Donato Calabria, Aldo Roda2, Giada Moroni3, Antimo Gioiello3, Marco Garavelli1)

6-7 February 2020

1st Modelling Photoinduced Processes in Molecular Systems Workshop, (Imperial College London). Talk title: “Elucidating the Photo-induced Pedalo-type Motion triggering Azodicarboxamide-Based Molecular Switches (Machines?)" (Autors: Irene Conti, Saeed Amirjalayer, Wybren Jan Buma, Marco Garavelli)

1-5 September 2019

THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY EUCO2019 (Perugia). Talk title: “Deciphering the intersystem crossing decay processes in thiobases: a combination of transient absorption spectroscopy and QM/MM simulations” (Irene Conti, Artur Nenov, Rocio Borrego-Varillas, Danielle C. Teles-Ferreira, Lucia Ganzer, Cristian Manzoni, Ana Maria de Paula, Giulio Cerullo and Marco Garavelli). Organized by European Chemical Society, Division of Computational and Theoretical Chemistry.

14 February 2019

WINTER MODELING 2019 Conference (Aula Magna Centro Congressi, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy). Oral talk as invited speaker: “The intersystem crossing decay processes in thiobases: transient absorption spectroscopy and QM/MM simulations” (Irene Conti, Artur Nenov, Rocio Borrego-Varillas, Danielle C. Teles-Ferreira, Lucia Ganzer, Cristian Manzoni, Ana Maria de Paula, Giulio Cerullo and Marco Garavelli).

7 July 2016

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF DNA OLIGOMERS. A training ground for modelling and experiments. (CNR di Pisa). Oral talk: “A comprehensive analysis of the mechanisms leading to Thy-Thy photodimers in DNA double strand” ( Irene Conti, Marco Garavelli)

August 2017

11^th Triennial Congress of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry WATOC, Aug. 2017, Muenchen, Germany. Poster: ‘Tracking azobenzene photoisomerization with sub-20-fs UV pulses’ (presented by Artur Nenov)

7 July 2016

Meeting "ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF DNA OLIGOMERS. A training ground for modelling and experiments" at CNR di Pisa. Oral Talk: ‘A comprehensive analysis of the mechanisms leading to Thy-Thy photodimers in DNA double strand’

11-16 July 2010

XXIII IUPAC Symposium on Photochemisty, Ferrara, Italia. Poster: ‘Adenine deactivation in vacuo and DNA resolved at the CASPT2//CASSCF level’

25-30 September 2007

International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering 2007 (ICCMSE 2007), Corfu, Grecia. Poster presentation: ‘Azobenzene cis-trans photoisomerization mechanism: characterization of the decay ways from the lowest ππ* absorbing singlet state’.

2-15 September 2007

The eleventh European Summer School in Quantum Chemistry 2007, at Hotel Villaggio Torre Normanna, Sicilia, Italia. Poster presentation: ‘Azobenzene cis-trans photoisomerization mechanism: characterization of the decay ways from the lowest pp* absorbing singlet state’.

10-15 September 2006

Gordon Research Conference on ‘Electronic Spectroscopy & Dynamics’ at Les Diablerets, Switzerland.

31 Jenuary-1 February 2008

Hy3M Meeting, Pejo, Italy.

• GRANTS:

• Involved in the ERC-project "STRucture and dynAmics of biomolecules by Two-dimensional Ultraviolet Spectroscopy (STRATUS, 2012-2017)", financed by the Advanced Grant programme of the European Research Council (ERC-2011-AdG No. 291198) with principal investigators Prof. Giulio Cerullo from the polytechnic university of Milano and Prof. Marco Garavelli from the university of Bologna, aimed at the development of ab initio techniques for simulating nonlinear optical spectroscopy and their application to biomolecules.

• Part of the Horizon2020 project "Digital Ontology-based Modelling Environment for Simulation of materials (SimDOME, since 2019)", call: H2020-NMBP-TO-IND-2018-2020; Topic: DT-NMBP-09-2018, GA 814492 with principal investigator Prof. Emanuele Ghedini from the University of Bologna, with the scope of bringing together codes in materials modelling and molecular spectroscopies within operational productive environment and adapting them to the needs of non-specialized users.

• Part of the PRIN project (2010) Dipartimento di Chimica 'G. Ciamician', Università di Bologna. Title: 'Modellistica di processi molecolari ultraveloci fotoindotti in rodopsine e fotorivelatori molecolari organici'

• OTHER FORMATIVE EXPERIENCES:

- The eleventh European Summerschool in Quantum Chemistry 2007, at Hotel Villaggio Torre Normanna, Sicily, Italy.

• TEACHING:

AA 2021/2022

25 hours, course leader 66682 - FISICA CON ESERCITAZIONI, Campus di Rimini, Laurea in Chimica e tecnologie per l'ambiente e per i materiali (UniBo).

2 hours, teaching, course 91227-Laser and Computational Methodologies, Dipartimento di Chimica ‘G. Ciamician’

32 hours, laboratory course 91227-Laser and Computational Methodologies, Dipartimento di Chimica ‘G. Ciamician’.

AA 2020/2021

32 hours, laboratory course 91227-Laser and Computational Methodologies, Dipartimento di Chimica ‘G. Ciamician’.

AA 2019/2020

32 hours, laboratory course 66176-Chimica Fisica dei Materiali Funzionali, Dipartimento di Chimica Industriale ‘T. Montanari’