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Tommaso Salzillo graduated in Industrial Chemistry in 2011 and he received his Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry in 2015 from the University of Bologna. He was awarded with a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2017 at Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC, Spain) where his research project focused on the study of polymorphism and morphology control in flexible organic electronic devices. in 2020 he won a Senior Koshland Postdoctral fellowship at Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) performing studies on the structural dynamics of functional materials such as organic crystal and chalcogenide perovskites by means of low-wavenumber Raman spectroscopy. Currently he is holding an Assistant Professor (Senior) position at the Department of Industrial Chemistry, University of Bologna funded by Rita Levi Montalcini programme. His research interests include polymorphism in organic semiconductors and active pharmaceutical ingredients, solid-state photoreactions and vibrational spectroscopy.

Elisabetta Venuti is Associate Professor in Physical Chemistry at the University of Bologna. A former student at the University of Florence and at CNR (Bologna), she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max-Planck Institute in Mülheim a. d. Ruhr (DE) and visiting scientist at the Universities of Reading (UK) and Helsinki (FI). Her research has dealt with the experimental and computational spectroscopic response of molecular systems in the gas and condensed phases by means of high resolution IR, time resolved fluorescence and solid state Raman techniques.  Recent activity has focused on the study of structural and dynamics properties of materials for organic electronics.

Elisabetta Canè is Assistant Professor in Physical Chemistry at the University of Bologna. A former student at the University of Bologna  she worked two years in HIMONT, Ferrara, Italy. From 1990 her research has dealt with the experimental, molecular, high resolution spectroscopy of species in the gas phase.  Recent activity has focused on the analysis of rotation or ro-vibration spectra of  molecules of atmospheric or astrophysics interest.

Martina Zangari is a Fellow Researcher in Industrial Chemistry at the University of Bologna. She completed her graduation in Industrial and Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Insubria. Later, she obtained her Ph.D. in Nanotechnology from the University of Trieste and Elettra Sincrotrone. During her Ph.D., she studied protein-silicate fibers interaction using FTIR nano and microspectroscopy. Since March 2024, she has started her postdoctoral research at the University of Bologna. Her research focuses on lattice dynamics and structure in organic semiconductors by THz spectroscopy. Her research interests include Raman and Infrared characterization of polymorphism in organic semiconductors and biological systems.

Sara Pandolfi obtained her B.Sc. in Physics and M.Sc. degrees in Applied Physics from the University of Bologna. She is a Ph.D. student in Nanoscience for Medicine and Environment under the supervision of Prof. Tommaso Salzillo. Her main research activity focuses on vibrational spectroscopy in the study of biomaterials and living cells.

Wenjing Chen is a PhD student in Industrial Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Tommaso Salzillo at the University of Bologna. She received her bachelor’s degree in metallurgical engineering in 2020 from Lanzhou University of Technology and the master’s degree in nonferrous metal metallurgy in 2023 from Kunming University of Science and Technology. Her main research topics during her master’s studies deal with the investigation of crystal structures of olivine lithium metal phosphates cathode materials for Li-ion batteries and their selective recovery and regeneration. Currently, her main research interest focuses on Raman microscopy analysis of polymorphs of organic semiconductors.

I'm currently a master's student in industrial chemistry at the University of Bologna.

I gradueted in chemistry from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (2023). I will do the internship in Barcelona at the Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia istitute (ICN2), under the supervision of Prof. Tommaso Salzillo.

Tatiana Candeloro, a student currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry and Technologies for the Environment and Materials, will undertake an internship under the guidance of Professor Elisabetta Venuti and Professor Tommaso Salzillo. The objective of the internship is to conduct research on the self-healing process in hybrid perovskites after the application of mechanical stress. Her methodology will include the use of Raman and infrared spectroscopy.

Fabio Loprete is currently a Ph.D student in Industrial Chemistry at the University of Bologna under the supervision of Professor Ivan Rivalta. He obtained his B.Sc. (2021) and M.Sc. (2023) degrees in Industrial Chemistry at the University of Bologna. His main research interests are computational catalysis (heterogeneous and electrocatalysis); computational and experimental study of hybrid organic and inorganic materials.

Alberto Arcioni is consultant "Researcher". He is interested in Fluorescence Depolarization of probes in liquid crystals, membranes, polymers and is an expert in the determination of static and dynamic properties in these systems using time resolved depolarization methods and of the development of data analysis techniques for extracting, e.g. with deconvolution methods, information on order parameters and diffusion coefficients. More recently he has become interested in using ESR spin probe techniques for attacking similar problems in a variety of ordered systems. He is now in charge of the Bruker ESR spectrometer in the group and is working on liquid crystalline systems containing dispersed silica aerosils.

I am a Industrial Chemistry bachelor studentand I am undertaking an internship under the guidance of Professor Tommaso Salzillo. The objective of
the internship is to conduct research on polymorphism in organic field effect transistors (OFETs) using different spectroscopic techniques.

Currently pursuing a bachelor degree in Industrial Chemistry at the University of Bologna, will undertake an internship under the guidance/supervision of Prof. Tommaso Salzillo. The object of his Bachelor thesis project is the study of a new class of mechanochromic material using spectroscopic methods at microscopic level.