Ragazzon | Driven chemical processes

Giulio Ragazzon is a senior team leader at the Institute of Supramolecular Science and Engineering (ISIS) at the University of Strasbourg. He studied chemistry at the University of Trieste, and has a thesis on photoactive metal complexes. After joining the University of Bologna for his Master's degree, he obtained his PhD in 2017 from the same institution, working on light-driven molecular machines. During his postdoc, he worked on non-equilibrium self-assembly at the University of Padova, showing how the principles underlying molecular machines can be exploited to achieve thermodynamically unfavourable self-assembly processes. He then joined the University of Trieste as an assistant professor, before starting his independent career at ISIS in 2021. His group studies non-equilibrium processes occurring at the molecular scale.

Thanks to his contributions, he has received prestigious prizes and scholarships: in 2016, he received the European Young Chemist Award, the most important European recognition at doctoral level, and in 2021, he was a finalist in the Dream Chemistry Award, a worldwide competition rewarding young chemists who dream of solving fundamental problems with bold ideas. In 2021, he received ERC Starting grant funding from the European Research Council.