Prof. Dr. Caterina Viglianisi

CATERINA VIGLIANISI was born in 1976 in Reggio Calabria (Italy). She received her Master’s degree in Chemistry in 2001 at the University of Messina (Italy) where she obtained her Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences in January 2006 under the tutorship of Prof. M. C. Aversa. She was visiting PhD student at the School of Biological and Chemicals Sciences, in Exeter, (UK), in the group of Professor Claus Jacob working on "Design of Multifunctional Antioxidants: Biological redox chemistry of the chalcogens". Afterwards, she moved to Florence join the group of Professor Stefano Menichetti for a post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Florence (Italy), where she is currently an Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry. Her research interests include redox chemistry with design and synthesis of multifunctional antioxidants, molecular, macromolecular and nano-supported antioxidants and the study of their potential applications in the medical field and new materials. A further research area is the synthesis and evaluation of the optoelectronic properties of condensed heterocyclic systems.