Assistant Professor
Office: 5.2.16
Tel: +39-02-23993046
E-mail: gabriella.cavallo@polimi.it
CURRICULUM VITAE
Date of birth:
February 2, 1976
Education:
Employments:
2011-....: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Materials, and Chemical Engineering ?G. Natta?, Politecnico di Milano2010 ? 2011 - Team Leader, ?Center of Nano Science and Technology of IIT@POLIMI?, IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Research Project: ?Design, synthesis and structural/optical characterization of new organic chromophores for applications in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC)?
2011 Visiting Researcher at VTT- Technical Research Centre of Finland. Research Project: ?Study of surface-active properties of fluorinated proteins? 2008- 2010- Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dipartimento di Chimica, Materiali e Ingegneria Chimica ?Giulio Natta?, Politecnico di Milano Research Project: ?Synthesis and characterization of self-assembled nanostructured materials having relevant functional properties?
2008-2008- Postdoctoral Fellowship, Pirelli Labs , Milano Research Project: ?Synthesis and characterization of innovative materials for fuel cells applications?.
2006-2007- Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dipartimento di Chimica, Materiali e Ingegneria Chimica ?Giulio Natta?, Politecnico di Milano Research Project: ?Synthesis, characterization and performance of polymeric materials for hydrogen fuel cells?.
2005-2006- Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dipartimento di Chimica Università degli Studi di Salerno Research Project: ?Synthesis and characterization of catalysts for innovative polymerization processes?
2000-2002- Fellowship, Pirelli Tyres S.p.A. , Milano: Research Projects: ?New components for tyre?s compounds produced with innovative technology? (2002) ?Synthesis of polymers as components of tyre?s compounds? (2000-2002)
Other Professional Activities and Awards
Dalton Transactions Poster Prize at the 5th International Conference on Molecular Materials MolMat2012, Barcelona July 3-6, 2012Placed second in the ?Idea to Product Competition? Italy-Politecnico di Milano with the poject ? FoXcs-Fluorurati Organici per Celle Solari?
Research Interests
Self-assembly of functional materials Synthesis of materials for photovoltaic applicationsSupramolecular photoresponsive polymers NLO-active materials via self-assembly.
Supramolecular liquid crystals
Publications
Author of 30 papers in major international peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary scientific journals.More than 20 communications to scientific meetings.