Prof. Matteo tegoni
Principal investigator
Born in 1974. Degree in Chemistry (summa cum laude) in 1998 (Univ. of Parma); Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences in 2001 (Univ. of Parma). Present position: Assistant professor at the Department of Chemistry (2002-present).
Visiting scientist at the Univ. of Michigan in years 2008-12 (overall 18 months) to carry out research on Metallacrowns and metallopeptides. Visiting Ph.D. student at the Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal) in 2001. Visiting student at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands) in 1998. |
RESEARCH ACTIVITY: Development of the chemistry of Metallacrowns: structure and self-assembly. Research in the field of self-assembly of metal-containing supramolecules, stability and function of metallopeptides.
RESEARC PROJECTS:
Coordinator:
-EU project FP7/2013-17 Marie Curie IRSES “Metallacrowns-based innovative materials and supramolecular devices”. (https://sites.google.com/site/metallacrowns/)
- Bilateral Italy-USA Project 2016-18 “Development of porous magnetic Metallacrowns for sensing applications “. (https://sites.google.com/site/metallacrownsmae2016/).
- Bilateral Italy-USA Project 2011-12 “De novo Designed Metallopeptides to Mimic Structural and Catalytic Copper Sites in Metalloproteins“.
- University mobility project “OVERWORLD”. Partner: University of Michigan.
- Participant to Italian project PRIN 2015 “Metal ions, dopamine, and oxidative stress in Parkinson's disease”.
TEACHING ACTIVITY: Bioinorganic Chemistry, General and Inorganic Chemistry. Supervisor of 3 Ph.D. thesis in Chemical Sciences and two post-docs.
MEMBERSHIPS: Member of Italian Chemical Society (SCI), European Group of Thermodynamics of Metal Complexes, Italian Consortium on Chem. of Metals in Biological Systems. Former member of the National Board of the Young Chemists Group of SCI.
PUBLICATIONS: 52 publications on international peer-reviewed journals, more than 70 oral communications at international conferences. Ten seminars and conferences on invitation. H-index = 23.