Paola Franchi was born in 1972 in Bologna, Italy. She studied
Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology at University of Bologna
and received her Diploma in 1997 under the supervision of Professor
Gian Franco Pedulli. She obtained her Ph.D from University of
Bologna in 2001, investigating supramolecular interactions by using
EPR spectroscopy. She worked as Honorary Assistance Research at the
University College of London (09/1999-03/2000) with Professor B.P.
Roberts. She then worked, 2001-2005, as Postgraduate Research
Fellow at the Department of Organic Chemistry “A.Mangini” at the
University of Bologna, and since 2005 she is Assistant Professor at
the same University. In 2018 she has been called Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry by the "Ciamician" Chemistry Department of the University of Bologna. The current research interests focus upon the
investigation of paramagnetic supramolecular systems (host-guest)
in aqueous and organic solutions. To this aim were developed: 1) Different
methods and radical probes (guest) to use EPR (spectroscopy of
paramagnetic electronic resonance) to investigate the thermodynamic
and kinetics properties of host systems such as cyclodextrins,
cucurbiturils, calyxarenes, micelles and gold nanoparticles. 2)
Different synthetic strategy for the preparation of auto-assembled
systems, in which the radical guest is mechanical interlocked
inside the host molecule.
