Roberta Sessoli

Roberta Sessoli is Professor of General and Inorganic Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff" at the University of Florence. Sessoli's research has had significant impact upon the field of molecular magnetism.

Education and early career

Roberta Sessoli was born in Florence on the 23 June 1963.[1] She attended Liceo Scientifico Guido Castelnuovo in Florence.[2] She graduated in Chemistry from the University of Florence in 1987. In 1992, she obtained her PhD from the same university, under the supervision of Professor Dante Gatteschi.[2] Her PhD thesis was on "Molecolar Magnetic Materials" (original title in Italian: "Materiali Magnetici Molecolari").[3]

Research interests

Sessoli began working at the University of Florence in 2000, and became full Professor of General and Inorganic Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff" at the University of Florence in 2012.[3]

Sessoli is interested in molecular and low-dimensional magnetism. She also worked on the spin dynamics of nanostructured materials. She investigated the nature of single molecules magnets.[4] Part of her research also focussed on quantistic technologies and spintronic molecular materials. More recently, her studies concentrated on the characterisation of magnetic materials through the use of unpolarised light.[5]

Publications

Sessoli's most influential publication is "Magnetic bistability in a metal-ion cluster", published on Nature in 1993 only one year after the completion of her PhD. This was a particularly influential article in the field of molecular magnetism, and was co-authored with Dante Gatteschi, Andrea Caneschi and Miguel A. Novak.[6] Since then the article has received more than 2770 citations.[6] In 2018, Sessoli was nominated as one of the most highly cited researchers by Clarivate Analytics.[7]

Sessoli co-authored the book "Molecular Nanomagnets" with Dante Gatteschi and Jacques Villain, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2006[8]

Awards

For her work in chemistry, Roberta received a wide range of awards:

Family and personal life

Sessoli has three sons.[1]

The fire station in via La Farina in Florence is named after Sessoli's grandfather, Giuseppe Sessoli, who was a fireman during the Second World War and died trying to save a woman and a little girl who were on a mined bridge.[22] He was posthumously awarded the Carnegie Gold Medal (Medaglia d'oro della Fondazione Carnegie per atti di eroismo) and the Silver Medal for Civilian Valour (Medaglia d'argento al valor civile).

References

  1. Sessoli, Roberta. "Curriculum Vitae di Roberta Sessoli" (PDF).
  2. "Roberta Sessoli". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 48 (13): 2265. 2009-03-16. doi:10.1002/anie.200900389. ISSN 1521-3773.
  3. "Roberta Sessoli - Università degli Studi di Firenze - UniFI". www.unifi.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  4. "When molecules become magnets –Roberta Sessoli alla giornata informativa dedicata all'ERC". ERC: European Research Council. 2012-06-22. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  5. Rogalev, Andrei; Wilhelm, Fabrice; Poggini, Lorenzo; Mannini, Matteo; Caneschi, Andrea; Boulon, Marie-Emmanuelle; Sessoli, Roberta (January 2015). "Strong magneto-chiral dichroism in a paramagnetic molecular helix observed by hard X-rays". Nature Physics. 11 (1): 69–74. Bibcode:2015NatPh..11...69S. doi:10.1038/nphys3152. ISSN 1745-2481. PMC 4340522. PMID 25729401.
  6. Novak, M. A.; A. Caneschi; Gatteschi, D.; Sessoli, R. (September 1993). "Magnetic bistability in a metal-ion cluster". Nature. 365 (6442): 141–143. Bibcode:1993Natur.365..141S. doi:10.1038/365141a0. ISSN 1476-4687.
  7. "Highly Cited Researchers - The Most Influential Scientific Minds". HCR. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  8. Villain, Jacques; Sessoli, Roberta; Gatteschi, Dante (2006-03-02). Molecular Nanomagnets. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198567530.001.0001. ISBN 9780191718298.
  9. "Albo d'Oro, premi e premiati". www.inorg.it. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  10. "SCIENZIATI: PREMIATI GATTESCHI E SESSOLI PER NUOVA SCOPERTA". www1.adnkronos.com. Retrieved 2019-02-16.
  11. "Agilent Technologies Presents Europhysics Prize for Pioneering Work on Quantum Behavior of Molecular Nanomagnets". Agilent Technologies Inc. Retrieved 2019-02-16.
  12. "Four Distinguished Scientists to Give Beller, Marshak Lectures". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2019-02-16.
  13. "Société Chimique de France". www.societechimiquedefrance.fr. Retrieved 2019-02-16.
  14. "Roberta Sessoli 10/febbraio/2016 Chimica | VIS" (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  15. "Premi Accademia dei Lincei 2013" (PDF).
  16. "Inorganic Chemistry and Organometallics Welcome New Associate Editors". ACS Axial. 2018-11-15. Retrieved 2019-02-16.
  17. Nazione, La. "Fiorino d'oro della Città di Firenze, la consegna a Palazzo Vecchio". La Nazione (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-02-16.
  18. "IUPAC 2015 Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54 (30): 8593. 2015. doi:10.1002/anie.201505537. ISSN 1521-3773.
  19. "Visitors | Brooker's Bunch". blogs.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 2019-02-16.
  20. "Roberta Sessoli - LaMM's Staff - LaMM: Laboratorio di Magnetismo Molecolare - UniFI". www.lamm.unifi.it. Retrieved 2019-02-16.
  21. "RSC Centenary Prize 2019 Winner". www.rsc.org. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
  22. "Storia del Comando Prov.le di Firenze". www.vigilfuoco.it. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
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