Dr. Massimo Sgarzi

Massimo Sgarzi obtained his MSc degree in Photochemistry and Chemistry of Materials at University of Bologna, Italy, in 2008. He stayed at the Photochemical Nanosciences Laboratory for his PhD studies at University of Bologna, under the supervision of Professor Luca Prodi. He received his PhD degree in 2014, defending a thesis about the characterization of optical transduction-based molecular systems and nanoparticles for the development of chemical sensors. Subsequently, he obtained a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in the same laboratory, continuing the work on the photophysical characterization of fluorescent chemosensors and silica nanoparticles for biological and environmental applications. In 2015, he moved to Dresden, Germany, where he joined the Nanoscalic Systems group guided by Dr Holger Stephan at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf. His research focused on the development and characterization of luminescent systems for use in bioimaging and sensor applications, dealing in particular with upconverting nanoparticles and ligands for lanthanide and actinide ions. At the end of 2018, he joined the Chair of Materials Science and Nanotechnology at Technische Universität Dresden held by Professor Gianaurelio Cuniberti, working on the application of nanoparticles and chemosensors for wastewater treatment. Since 2019, he is leader of the Environmental Nanotechnology group at the same Chair, dealing with the synthesis and characterization of nanostructured materials.