The year 2001 Grammaticakis-Neumann
Prize in photochemistry was awarded to Dr.
Nicola ARMAROLI, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per
la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività, Bologna (Italy). The award
ceremony took place at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
on October 7, 2002. It constituted a highlight of the symposium "Supramolecular
Chemical Systems: From Design to Functionality".
The lecture presented by the laureate, entitled "From Metal Complexes to Fullerene Arrays: Exploring the Exciting World of Supramolecular Photochemistry", demonstrated the impressive extent and high scientific standard of his research. It was published in the form of a 'perspective' article in the journal Photochemical and Photobiology Sciences.
Dr. Nicola Armaroli, laureate of the Grammaticakis-Neumann Prize 2001.
Nicola Armaroli
Nicola Armaroli was born in 1966 in Bentivoglio (Italy). He studied Chemistry at the University of Bologna, where he obtained his degree (summa cum laude) in 1990. He carried out a PhD thesis in the same institution under the guidance of Prof. Vincenzo Balzani on the subject of supramolecular photochemistry, and got his doctorate in 1994. Dr. Armaroli then spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Photochemical Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA, before returning to Itlay where he has been working at the Istituto FRAE and at the University of Bologna (1996). Since 1997, he is a researcher at the Institute of Organic Synthesis and Photoreactivity (ISOF) of the Italian National Research Council in Bologna.
"The Grammaticakis-Neumann Prize 2001 is awarded to Dr. Nicola Armaroli for an outstanding contribution to the study of photochemical processes in Cu(I) complexes and supramolecular systems".
