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Prof. Dr. Paolo Melchiorre
Professor of Chemistry @ UNIBO
Date of birth: 29 May 1973 - Nationality: Italian
Researcher unique identifiers: Researcher ID: K-9301-2014; ORCID: 0000-0001-8722-4602
The following list summarises the most important steps of his educational and professional career:
- MSc in Chemistry - University of Bologna (Italy) 1993-1999
- PhD in Chemical Sciences - University of Bologna 2000-2003
- Research Period at Center for Catalysis - University of Århus (DK) 2002
- Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemistry - University of Bologna 2003-2006
- Assistant Professor - University of Bologna 2007-2009
- ICIQ group leader and ICREA Professor - ICIQ (Tarragona) 2009-2022
CURRENT POSITION
Professor of Organic Chemistry, Department of Industrial Chemistry 'Toso Montanari' - University of Bologna; from October 24, 2022
DISTINCTIONS & SCIENTIFIC LEADERSHIP
2026 President of the 59th Bürgenstock Conference – Brunnen, Switzerland (https://bc26.scg.ch/)
2026 Chair, 14th International Symposium on Organic Free Radicals (ISOFR-14), Bologna, Italy (https://isofr14.it/)
2025 Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences - EurASc, Chemistry Division
2025 Novartis Chemistry Lectureship
2024 Premio Linceo for Chemistry 2024, 'Accademia dei Lincei'
2024 ERC Advanced Grant Laureate (PHOTOZYME), European Research Council
2021 Pedler Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) “for the development of asymmetric photocatalytic methodologies based on excited state intermediates”
2020 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
2019 ERC Proof of Concept to carry out the project “LIGHT-COAT” on photo-polymerisations
2019 Associate Editor at Chemical Science, the flagship journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
2019 “Giorgio Modena” Medal from the Italian Chemical Society
2016 Prize for Scientific Excellence from the Royal Spanish Chemical Society (RSEQ)
2016 ERC Consolidator Grant Laureate (CATA-LUX), European Research Council
2015 Thieme Lecture – DOMINOCAT SYMPOSIUM, Aachen, Germany
2014 Erdtman Lecture – Stockholm, Sweden
2013 JSPS Fellowship under the FY2013 Program for Research in Japan
2011 ERC Starting Grant Laureate (ORGA-NAUT), European Research Council
2009 ICREA (Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats) Research Professor
2009 Thieme Journal Prize
2008 Recipient of the Liebig Lectureship awarded by the German Chemical Society
2007 Recipient of the “G. Ciamician” Medal of the Italian Chemical Society
Research Record
Paolo Melchiorre has authored a total of 150 publications in international journals with a high impact factor: e.g. 3 × Nature; 48 × Angewandte Chemie; 4 × Nature Chemistry; 1 × Nature Synthesis; 1 × PNAS; 16 × the Journal of American Chemical Society; 6 × Chemical Science.
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His papers have attracted a total of 23100 citations (as of October 2025, Google scholar).
PM has delivered more than 300 invited lectures and seminars at the national and international level.
Research Interest
His research focuses on the discovery and mechanistic understanding of new asymmetric catalytic transformations enabled by organocatalysis, photochemistry, and engineered enzymes. The goal is to develop sustainable, light-driven catalytic strategies for the efficient preparation of complex chiral molecules and to provide concepts that will broaden the toolbox of synthetic chemistry.
