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Marco Bandini

Full Professor

Department of Chemistry "Giacomo Ciamician"

Academic discipline: CHIM/06 Organic Chemistry

Curriculum vitae

Full Professor & Delagate for the Reseearch @ Dipartimento di Chimica "G. Ciamician", via Selmi 2, 40126, Bologna - Italy

marco.bandini@unibo.it [mailto:marco.bandini@unibo.it]

web site group: https://site.unibo.it/lasc/en

web site C3: https://centri.unibo.it/c3/en

Personal data
  • Date of Birth: 10-07-1973.
  • Place of Birth: Faenza (RA), Italy
  • Nationality: Italian
  • Marital Status: Married with one daughter (Beatrice) and one son (Giovanni).
  • ORCID: 0000-0001-9586-3295

Education:
  • 1997: B.Sc. in Chemistry (cum laude), Department of Chemistry “G. Ciamician”, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Italy. “Synthesis of new bis-oxazoline ligands and their use in asymmetric C-C bond forming reactions”; Advisor: Prof. Pier Giorgio Cozzi and Prof. Achille Umani-Ronchi.
  • 2001: Ph.D. in Chemistry: Department of Chemistry “G. Ciamician”, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Italy. “Asymmetric reactions promoted by chiral catalysts”, Advisor: Prof. Achille Umani-Ronchi.
  • 2001-2010: Assistant Professor of Chemistry: Department of Chemistry “G. Ciamician”, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Italy.
  • 2010: Habilitation for Associate Professor of chemistry (University of Milan, Italy).
  • 2011: to the present: Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Italy.
  • 2019: Full Professors organic chemistry.

 

National and International Research Experiences:
  • 1997: Research Fellow: Recordati spa (Milan, Italy), “Synthesis of AZT-derivatives with anticancer activity” (4 months);
  • 1998: Visiting Researcher: Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, (Prof. Michael R. Gagné, 5 months);
  • 2004: Visiting Researcher: Department of Chemistry, Center of Clean Technology, University of York, UK, Dr. Duncan Macquarrie/Prof. James Clark(selected for the Marco Polo Fellowship University of Bologna, 5 months);
  • 2009: Visiting Scientist: College of Chemistry Central China Normal University, Wuhan (China). Host: Prof. Wen-Jing Xiao [http://chem-xiao.ccnu.edu.cn/] .
  • 2012: Visiting Scientist: College of Chemistry Central China Normal University, Wuhan (China). Host: Prof. Wen-Jing Xiao [http://chem-xiao.ccnu.edu.cn/] .
  • 2016: Visiting Scientist: University of Normandy (France). Host: Prof. Vincent Dalla [https://urcom.univ-lehavre.fr/]
  • 2017: Visiting Scientist: College of Chemistry Central China Normal University, Wuhan (China). Host: Prof. Wen-Jing Xiao [http://chem-xiao.ccnu.edu.cn/] .
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Prizes & Awards:
  • 1998: Recordati spa (Milan) Fellow;
  • 2002: Co.Gi.C.O. Junior Award, Italian Chemical Society;
  • 2004: Marco Polo Fellow, University of Bologna, Italy;
  • 2005: “G. Ciamician” Medal, Italian Chemical Society;
  • 2005: JSP Fellowship of the “40th EUCHEM Conference of Stereochemistry (“Bürgenstock-Conference”);
  • 2008: FIRB "Futuro in Ricerca", MIUR - Rome-;
  • 2009: Visiting Fellow, National Science Foundation of China;
  • 2012: Visiting Fellow, National Science Foundation of China;
  • 2016: Visiting Fellow, University of Normandy (France);
  • 2017: Visiting Fellow, National Science Foundation of China.
  • 2019: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship [link [https://magazine.unibo.it/archivio/2020/04/08/un-docente-unibo-premiato-dalla-japan-society-for-the-promotion-of-science?fbclid=IwAR1jNLDEi61wyuNpCmb7O3viEi8MC8f15QW3YBz0-ib84JpHh17VcWBOAEo]];
  • 2022 International Organic Chemistry Foundation (IOCF) Lecture award.[IOCF Lecturship];
  • 2023 EurJOC Lecturship, Asian-European Congress Organometallic Chemistry (Haifa, Israel).
Memberships:
  • 1999- : Italian Chemical Society;
  • 2005- : American Chemical Society;
  • 2006-2008: Heterocyclic Chemistry Society;
  • 2016-2018: Royal Society of Chemistry.
Editorial boards:
  • 2008 on: Letters in Organic Chemistry (Bentham Science Publishers);
  • 2015 on: Organic Chemistry Frontiers (Royal Society of Chemistry)
  • 2018 on: SynOpen (Thieme).
  • 2020 on: Catalysis (MDPI).
Associate Editor-in-Chief:
  • 2018 on: Chinese Journal of Chemistry (Wiley-VCH). [link [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/16147065/0/0] ]
Reviewing:

MB served as a referee for the following journals: JACS; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.; Chem. Sci.; Chem.Commun. In the 2014/5 he was among the top 5% of reviewers for Angewandte Chemie in terms of number of reports completed.

 

Conference/Symposium organization & Board/Commitee Member:
  • 2009 on. MB is managing a visit seminar program @ the "G. Ciamician" Department. [link ]
  • 2009. Book Guest Editor: Catalytic Asymmetric Friedel-Crafts Alkylations [link [http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-3527323805.html#see-less-rev] ] (Eds: M. Bandini & A. Umani-Ronchi), Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2009 (ISBN: 9783527323807). Reviewed in Book News Inc., February 2011;
  • 2012: Chairman of the Workshop on “Push the Envelope in C-H activation methodologies … and beyond. Bologna, Italy.
  • 2015:Member of the Organizing committee (National Congress of the Italian Chemical Society, Organic Chemistry Division), Bologna;
  • 2016: Book Guest Editor: Au-Catalyzed Synthesis and Functionalization of Heterocyclic, Topics in Heterocyclic Chemistry, Springer, 2016 (SBN 978-3-319-35144-5); [link [http://www.springer.com/la/book/9783319351421]
  • 2016: Chairman of the Sigma-Aldrich Lecture (Bologna);
  • 2016: Book Guest Editor: Special EurJOC-Cluster issue on Honor of Prof. Achille Umani-Ronchi, 2016. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejoc.v2016.19/issuetoc ].
  • 2015-2017: Committee member of the International Summer School on Organic Synthesis "A. Corbella". [http://www.corbellasummerschool.unimi.it/]
  • 2019 Chairman of IV-CISOC: Italy-China Bilateral Symposium Organic Synthesis (website [https://eventi.unibo.it/iv-china-italy-symposium-organic-chemistry] ).
  • 2020-2023: Coordinator for UNIBO of Consorptium CINMPIS (Board-member).
  • 2021-on: Co-director of the "Center for Chemical Catalysis - C3", Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna.
  • 2021-on: Delegate for the Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, for the European network Coimbra (STEM working package).
  • 2022-2024: Board Member of the interdivisional group: "Organometallic Chemistry" of the Italian Chemical Society.
  • 2023-2025: Board Member of the Organic Chemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society.

Brief track record (1999-Sept 2023)
  • h-index = 54 (Scopus)
  • Sum of the Times Cited 10110 (WOS); 10250 (Scopus)
  • Average Citations/Items: 58.44 (WOS); 61.81 (Scopus)
  • Corresponding author in 105 papers;
Citation report (Journals Citation Reports, up to Fabruary 2024):
  • h-index = 55 (Scopus)
  • Sum of the Times Cited 10430 (WOS); 10350 (Scopus)
  • Average Citations/Items: 58.44 (WOS); 61.81 (Scopus)
  • Corresponding author in 106 papers;
Outreach:

MB has been executive member (1998-2012) and subsequently coordinator (up to 2015) of the committee “Conoscere la Chimica” (Knowing the Chemistry) of the Department of Chemistry “G. Ciamician”. Mission of team lied on the organization of shows about chemistry for visiting students coming from primary, secondary and high schools of Italy (http://www.chimica.unibo.it/it/conoscere-la-chimica, web site in Italian). Over 18 years more than 22.000 students attended the show over more then 250 performances.