MB

MARCO BANDINI

Full Professor  @ Dipartimento di Chimica "G. Ciamician", via Selmi 2, 40126, Bologna - Italy

marco.bandini@unibo.it

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 @ Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Italy.

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.
• 2012: Visiting Scientist: College of Chemistry Central China Normal University, Wuhan (China). Host: Prof. Wen-Jing Xiao.
• 2016: Visiting Scientist: University of Normandy (France). Host: Prof. Vincent Dalla
• 2017: Visiting Scientist: College of Chemistry Central China Normal University, Wuhan (China). Host: Prof. Wen-Jing Xiao.

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]
  
• 2022: International Organic Chemistry Foundation (IOCF) Lecture Award (Kyoto and Osaka University) [link]
• 2022: EurJOC Lecturship award (Haifa)

Memberships:      

• 1999-   : Italian Chemical Society;
• 2005 - on: 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);
• 2022 on: Eur.J.Org.Chem. (Wiley).

  Associate Editor:

• 2018-2026: Chinese Journal of Chemistry (Wiley-VCH). [link]

  Senior Associate Editor:

• 2026-on: Chinese Journal of Chemistry (Wiley-VCH). [link]

Institutional Appointments:

• 2011-on: Director of the Laboratory of Asymemtric Synthesis and Catalysis: LASC;
• 2017-2023: Research Delegate of the Department of Chemitry "Giacomo Ciamician";
• 2018-2024: Delegate for the University of Bologna for the Inter-University Consorptium CINMPIS;
• 2021-2024. Delegate for the Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, for the European network Coimbra (STEM working package).
• 2021-on: Co-director of the Center for Chemical Catalysis - C3,  Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna (link).
• 2025-on: Quality Insurance Delegate of the Department of Chemitry "Giacomo Ciamician";
• 2025-on: Member of the Quality Insurance Board of the University of Bologna (Doctoral Studies); 

National Appointments:

• 2022-2024: Board member of the Interdivisional Group of Organometallic Chemistry - GICO of the Italian Chemical Society;
• 2023-2025: Board member of the Division of Organic Chemistry of the Italian Chemical Society;
• 2025-2027: National Coordinator of the Thematic Group - GICO of the Italian Chemical Society.

Conference/Symposium organization:

• 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: Chairman of the Sigma-Aldrich Lecture (Bologna);
• 2015-2017: Committee member of the International Summer School on Organic Synthesis "A. Corbella".
• 2019 Chairman of IV-CISOC: Italy-China Bilateral Symposium Organic Synthesis (website).
• 2025: Chairman of the SMOS-12: Asian-European Symposium on Metal Mediated Organic Synthesis (Bologna).
• 2027: Co-Chair of the 24th ESOC: European Symposium on Organic Synthesis;

Brief track record (1999- 2026)

• >160 Research articles/reviews in peer review journals;
• 12 Chapters/Books;
• 4 Patents;
• More than 90 oral communications to congresses, universities and schools.

•  H-index = 56 (Scopus); 58 (Google Scholar)

• Sum of the Times Cited 11500 (Scopus); 13700 (Google Scholar)
• Corresponding author in 83% of the papers;

Teaching:

MB since 2000 is teaching organic chemystry courses both at the Bc, Ms and PhD level. MB supervised  more than 70 students (Bc + Ms) and 20 PhD students.

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.