Phd in MATHEMATICAL MODELS FOR ENGINEERING, ELECTROMAGNETICS AND
NANOSCIENCES

email: luciano.galantini@uniroma1.it
phone: 23687
building: CU014
room: 263

Family name: Galantini, First name: Luciano
Researcher unique identifier(s): https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5484-2658
URL for web site: https://www.chem.uniroma1.it/en/department/people/luciano-galantini

POSITIONS
2021-present Full professor in Physical Chemistry Sapienza University of Rome
2012 Visiting professor Institute of Chemistry Casali Institute of Applied Chemistry hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
2010 – 2021 Associate Professor in Physical Chemistry Sapienza University of Rome
2007 Visiting professor Escuela de Quimica University of San Josè de Costa Rica (Costa Rica)
2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009 Visiting professor University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
1999-2010 University Researcher in Physical Chemistry Sapienza University of Rome
1997-1999 University Researcher in Inorganic Chemistry University of L’Aquila (Italy)

• AWARDS
■ Fondo di finanziamento per le attività base di ricerca (FFABR), assigned by ANVUR to the best 25% of Associate Professors in Italy
■ Vigevani Prize for Visiting Professor to Inst. of Applied Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJ), Israel. From the Associazione Amici Università di Gerusalemme

• TEACHING ACTIVITIES (since 2015)

2020 - present ▪ Physical Chemistry I with Laboratory, Batchelor degree in Chemical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome
2017 - 2019 ▪ Physical Chemistry I with Laboratory, Batchelor degree in Chemistry, Sapienza University of Rome
2016 - 2017 ▪ Physical Chemistry of solid state and of nanostructured materials, Master degree in Industrial Chemistry, Sapienza University of Rome
2015 - 2016 ▪ Physical Chemistry, Batchelor degree Biological Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome
2015 - 2017 ▪ Techniques for the study of dispersed systems. PhD course in Chemical Sciences

INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
2018 - present ▪ Head of the Department of Chemistry – Sapienza University of Rome
2021 - present ▪ Rector’s delegate for the Upgrade of the Research Laboratories – Sapienza University of Rome
2018 - present ▪ Responsible of SAXSLab, a multi-functional platform for Small Angle X-Ray Scattering, Wide Angle X-ray Scattering e Grazing Incidence Small Angle Scattering, at Sapienza University of Rome
2017 - present ▪ Member of the Executive Committee of the Research Center for Nanotechnologies Applied to Engineering, at Sapienza University of Rome
2013 - 2018 ▪ Member of the Professors-Students Joint Committee, Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Science, Sapienza University of Rome
2012 - present ▪ Member of the Board of the PhD in Mathematical Models for Engineering, Electromagnetics and Nanosciences, Sapienza University of Rome

• COMMISSIONS OF TRUST
2019 - present ▪ Member of the Editorial Board for the Section "Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics" of the International Journal of Molecular Science – MDPI
2020 - present ▪ Guest Editor Special Issues "Assembly Superstructures in Chemistry" and "Assembly Superstructures in Chemistry 2.0" International Journal of Molecular Science, MDPI
2016 - 2017 ▪ Guest Editor of the Special Issue 30th European Colloid and Interface Society Meeting, Rome 2016, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, Elsevier

Summary of Dissemination of research and citation metrics
Summary: co-author of 161 articles published in international peer-reviewed scientific journals, 2 contributions to scientific books. (Bibliometry: h-index=31, tot citations: 23114, source: Scopus).

Selected publications (since 2010)
▪ Du G., Belić D., Del Giudice A., Alfredsson V., Carnerup A. M., Zhu K., Nyström B., Wang Y., Galantini L., Schillén K., “Condensed Supramolecular Helices: The Twisted Sisters of DNA” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202113279,
▪ Contreras‐Pereda N., Rodríguez‐San‐Miguel D., Franco C., Sevim S., Vale J. P., Solano E., Fong, W.‐K., Del Giudice A., Galantini L., Pfattner R., Pané S., Mayor T. S., Ruiz‐Molina D., Puigmartí‐Luis, J. “Synthesis of 2D Porous Crystalline Materials in Simulated Microgravity” Adv. Mater. 2021, 33, 2101777.
▪ di Gregorio, M.C.; Cautela, J.; Galantini, L. “Physiology and Physical Chemistry of Bile Acids” Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2021, 22, 1780.
▪ Cautela J., Stenqvist B., Schillén K., Belić D., Månsson L. K., Hagemans F., Seuss M., Fery A., Crassous J. J., Galantini L. “Supracolloidal Atomium” ACS Nano 2020, 14, 15748-15756
▪ Severoni E, Maniappan S., Liz-Marzan L.M., Kumar J., García de Abajo F. J., Galantini L. “Plasmon-Enhanced Optical Chirality through Hotspot Formation in Surfactant-Directed Self-Assembly of Gold Nanorods” ACS Nano 2020, 14, 16712−16722.
▪ Cautela J., Lattanzi V., Månsson L. K., Galantini L., Crassous J. J. Sphere–tubule superstructures through supramolecular and supracolloidal assembly pathways. Small 2018, 14, 20180321.
▪ Gubitosi, M.; Travaglini, L.; Di Gregorio, M. C.; Pavel, N. V.; Vázqueza Tato, J.; Sennato, S.; Olsson, U.; Schillén, K.; Galantini, L. “Tailoring Supramolecular Nanotubes by Bile Salt Based Surfactant Mixtures” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 7018 –7021
▪ Travaglini L., D'Annibale A., Schillèn, Olsson U., Sennato, S., Pavel, N. V., Galantini, L. “Amino acid-bile acid based molecules: extremely narrow surfactant nanotubes formed by a phenylalanine-substituted cholic acid” Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 12011-12013.
▪ Manghisi N., Leggio C, Jover A., Meijide F., Pavel N.V., Tellini V.H.S., Tato J.V., Agostino R.G., Galantini L. Catanionic tubules with tunable charge Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 6604 – 6607.