CAMPAGNA Sebastiano

Sebastiano Campagna obtained his Laurea in Chemistry cum laude from the University of Messina (1983). In the period 1984-1989 he has been research fellow at the University of Bologna (photochemistry group, supervisor: Prof. Vincenzo Balzani).
He has been Funzionario Tecnico and Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Department of Inorg., Anal. and Phys. Chemistry of the University of Messina. Since 2002 he is Full Professor of Physical Chemistry in the same University. In 1995 he was awarded the "Raffaello Nasini Prize" by the Inorganic Division of the Società Chimica Italiana. His research activity involves design of multicomponent species and supramolecular photochemistry and photophysics, including artificial antenna systems for light harvesting, luminescent and redox active metal-based dendrimers, and photoinduced energy and electron transfer processes.
He published more than 260 articles in international journals and delivered many talks (more than 80 invited lectures) at scientific meetings or research centers. He has been the guest co-editor of an issue of Coord.Chem.Rev. (2000, vol. 208), of two issues of Top.Curr.Chem. (2007, vols. 280 and 281), and of an issue of Chemical Society Reviews (theme: Artificial Photosynthesis, 2017). He is co-author of the book "Designing Dendrimers", published by Wiley in 2012. His h-index is 70, according to Google Scholar, january 2022 (total number of citations over 22,000).

Sebastiano Campagna has been the Coordinator (1998-2003) of the European TMR Research Project "From Molecules to Materials: a Concerted Approach to Nanometer-sized Oligometallic Complexes with Predetermined Configurations and Functions" (Contract no. ERBFMRX-CT98-0226), involving 7 european research groups of 5 different Countries, and principal investigator of several COST projects (Action 11, Supramolecular Chemistry, and Action 14, Functional Molecular Materials). He has also been principal investigator of bilateral scientific and tutorial projects between Italy and the french-speaking community of Belgium (Program: "Antennas") and between Italy and Russia (Program: "Photochemistry"). He has been a member of the Management Committee of COST Action 35 ("From Molecules to Molecular Devices: Control of Electronic, Photonic, Magnetic and Spintronic Behaviour"). Within this Action, he participated to two Working Groups. He has been the Coordinator of the Italian FIRB project on Artificial Photosynthesis. He took part in many other national and international research projects.

Prof. Campagna has been the Chairman of the XIII International Symposium on Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds (ISPPCC), Lipari, 1999, Chairman of the II Mediterranean Meeting on Photochemistry, Giardini-Naxos, 2003, Chairman of the Faraday Discussion on Supramolecular Photochemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2015, and member of the scientific committees of several other international or national conferences. Chairman of the Gruppo Italiano di Fotochimica (the Italian branch of the European Photochemistry Association) from 2005 to 2011, Coordinator of the Gruppo Interdivisionale di Fotochimica of the Società Chimica Italiana (2005-2011), Associate Editor of the International Journal of Photoenergy (2009-2011), component of the Editorial Board of Chemical Physics Letters (from 2013), of the Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology, A: Chem (from 2015), and component of the International Scientific Committee of the IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry (2005-2006 and 2013-2014) and of the International Scientific Committee dell'ISPPCC (from 1999 to 2013). From 2013 he is the Chairman of the International Scientific Committee of ISPPCC. Since 2013 he is the President of the Centro Interuniversitario per la Fotosintesi Artificiale (SOLAR-CHEM). He served as the Chairman of the Department of Inorganic, Analytical and Physical Chemistry of the University of Messina (2007-2012). He has been the President of the Commission for the Abilitazionale Scientifica Nazionale on Physical Chemistry (2016-2018). Since 2013 to 2018 he has been the Director of the Doctorate School in Chemical Sciences at the University of Messina.