Nadia Camaioni got the Master degree (Laurea) in Physics,
summa cum laude, from the University of Bologna, in 1985.
She is a Research Director at the National Research Council
(Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, CNR) and she works in
Bologna, at the Institute for Organic Synthesis and
Photoreactivity.
Her scientific interests deal with the electronic properties of
organic conjugated materials and their applications in organic
electronics, in particular in the field of solar energy conversion
into electric energy. Her research activity is mainly
focused to the investigation of organic solar cells (for which she
was a pioneer at national level) and, recently, also of luminescent
solar concentrators. Concerning organic solar cells,
photoactive blends composed of a conjugated polymer and a fullerene
derivative are mainly studied, with the aim to understand the
complex interplay between the chemical structure of materials,
their chemical-physical properties and their effects on the
performance of solar cells. In the field of luminescent solar
concentrators, the attention is mainly for biopolymers with suited
optical properties, to be used as eco-friendly transparent
matrices.
Nadia Camaioni is a group leader. She has given invited talks at
International Conferences on the theme of organic photovoltaics.
She has been/is scientific responsible of national or international
research projects, as well as of industrial research contracts. She
acts as Referee for prestigious scientific publishers (Nature
Publishing Group, Wiley, ACS, AIP, RSC) as well as for funding
agencies (Ministero Sviluppo Economico (IT), Ministero
dell'Istruzione dell'Università e della Ricerca (IT), European
Commission, Science and Technology Foundation (PT), Fonds de la
Recherche Scientifique (B), Petroleum Research Fund (USA), National
Research Council of Romania, U.S. Department of Energy). She is
author of about 130 peer-reviewed publications in international
journals or book chapters. She is inventor of 2 Italian patents and
2 international patents.
Since 2012, she is Adjunct Professor at the University of Bologna, School of Science. Currently she teaches Organic Electronics: Materials and Applications.
