PhD in CHEMICAL SCIENCES

email: francesco.ricci@uniroma2.it
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CURRICULUM VITAE

Date of Birth 01/01/1977
Sex Male
Nationality Italian

Education
Ph.D (Analytical Chemistry) Oct 2005, Chemistry Department, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy
Supervisor: Prof. Giuseppe Palleschi
M.S. (Chemistry, Summa cum Laude) Mar 2001, Chemistry Department, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy
Supervisor: Prof. Giuseppe Palleschi
Professional Experience
Nov 2019 - current Full Professor, Analytical Chemistry, Chemistry Department, Univ. of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy
Apr 2014 – Oct 2019 Associate Professor, Chemistry Department, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy
Jun 2013 - Jun 2014 Visiting Professor, Marie Curie Outgoing Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara (Prof. Kevin W. Plaxco)
Dec 2006 - Apr 2014 Senior Researcher, Chemistry Department, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy
Jun 2008 - Dec 2008 Visiting Post-Doc Researcher, University of California, Santa Barbara (Prof. Kevin W. Plaxco)
Jun 2006 - Dec 2006 Visiting Post-Doc Researcher, University of California, Santa Barbara (Prof. Kevin W. Plaxco)

Current Research Interests
DNA Functional Nanotechnology, DNA-based sensors, Nanomachines, Aptamers, Conformation switching probes, Smart drug-release, Electrochemical sensors, Synthetic Biology.

Awards
Apr 2021 Luigi Galvani Prize of the Bioelectrochemical Society
Oct 2018 ERC Consolidator Grant 2018
Sep 2017 ACS “Advances in Measurement Science Lectureship” Award
Sep 2017 Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award on Analytical Science
Sep 2013 ERC Starting Grant 2013
Jun 2013 Habilitation as Full Professor in Anal. Chemistry (Italian Ministry for Research)
Mar 2012 EU Marie Curie FP7 International Outgoing Fellowship (IOF)
Nov 2009 Honour mention “Primo Levi” Award for young chemistry researchers (<35)
Jun 2007 “Best PhD thesis” award by the Italian Chemical Society
Sep 2005 “Best Young Researcher” award by the Italian Chemical Society

Visiting periods
Jun 2006 – Jun 2013 Visiting post-doc researcher and visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) (>2 years during 5 different visiting periods)
Jan 2000 – Jun 2000 Visiting research student at the University of Lund, Sweden

Referee/Evaluator activity
Panelist 2018-current: Member of ERC Advanced Grant Evaluation Panel PE3 (2018-)
2013: Evaluation Panel for “Young Researcher Grants” of the Italian Ministry of Health
Referee J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Chem. Comm., Biosens. Bioelectron., Anal. Chem. etc. (more than 150 papers refereed)
Evaluator FP7 Marie Curie Actions, H2020 MCSA projects, H2020 FET actions, Italian Ministry for Research and Education, Italian Ministry of Health, European Research Council (ERC), Portuguese Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), FP7 Marie Curie Actions,


Research Grants
Year Budget (€) Funding Body/Title Role
2020 239.000 FARE grant DNA-electro-Ab Coordinator
2022 134.000 ERC Proof of Concept Grant: “IMMUNO-MONITORING”. End date: 2024. Coordinator
2020 518.875 MSCA- Doctoral Training Network Grant: “SYNSENSO”. End date: 2025. Partner
2020 134.000 EU Marie Curie-Sklowdoska Fellowship “Entropic DNA” (dr. A. Idili). End date: 2022. Coordinator
2020 470.000 AIRC “Investigator Grant”. Cancer Research Foundation. Coordinator
2019 1.995.000 ERC Consolidator Grant 2018: “Pro-Toolkits”. End date: 2024. P.I.
2019 134.000 EU Marie Curie-Sklowdoska Global Fellowship “Enzyme switches” (dr. E. Del Grosso). End date: 2022. Coordinator
2019 407.000 EU H2020-SC1-2018-Single-Stage-RTD “Endoscape”. End date: 2023. Partner
2018 198.000 EU Marie Curie-Sklowdoska Global Fellowship “DNA-Nano-Ab” (dr. S. Ranallo). End date: 2022. Coordinator
2018 251.000 EU Marie Curie-Sklowdoska Global Fellowship “Re-Immune” (dr. A. Amodio). End date: 2020. Coordinator
2018 244.000 EU Marie Curie-Sklowdoska Global Fellowship “Smart BioSense” (dr. A. Chamorro Garcia). End date: 2021. Coordinator
2017 480.000 Initial Training Network Grant: “DNA-Robotics”. End date: 2022. P.I.
2016 150.000 ERC Proof of Concept Grant: “Ab Switch”. End date: 2018. P.I.
2016 110.000 JDRF grant: Biomarkers of Progression in the At-Risk Setting for Type 1 Diabetes. End date: 2018. P.I.
2016 80.000 PRIN grant, Italian Ministry of Research and Education. End date: 2019. Coordinator
2016 70.000 “Young Researchers Grant”, Italian Ministry of Health. End date: 2019. P.I.
2015 250.000 EU Marie Curie-Sklowdoska Global Fellowship “MiRNAno” (dr. A. Bertucci). End date: 2019. Coordinator
2014 166.000 Horizon-2020 RISE grant “Immuno-nanodecoder”. End date: 2019. Co-coordinator
2013 1.450.000 ERC Starting Grant 2013: “Nature Nanodevices”. End date: 2019. P.I.
2013 203.000 “My First AIRC” Grant. Cancer Research Foundation. P.I.
2013 103.000 PRIN grant, Italian Ministry of Research and Education. Coordinator
2013 55.000 EU Marie Curie FP7 IRSES grant “Chimera”. Coordinator
2013 83.000 “Young Researchers Grant” from Italian Ministry of Health. Coordinator
2012 247.000 EU Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship (IOF) “Peptide Sensing”. P.I.
2012 60.000 EU Marie Curie FP7 IRSES grant “PSP”. Coordinator
2011 100.000 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation “Grand Challenges Exploration Initiative” grant. P.I.
2010 120.000 “Future in Research” grant, Italian Ministry of Research and Education. Coordinator

Invited / Keynote Lectures (selection of most recent)
Jul 2023 RNA:DNA:protein nanotechnology symposium, Munich, Germany.
Jul 2023 5th ERC grantees conference, Edinburgh, UK.
Jun 2023 “A. Corbella” International Summer School on Organic Synthesis, Gargnano, Italy.
Jun 2023 Merck Innovation Seminar, Darmstadt, Germany.
Dec 2022 Collaborative Research Center (SFB1032), Munich, Germany.
Sep 2022 Dynamic Biosensors SwitchSense Users meeting, Munich, Germany.
Jul 2022 ECC8, Lisbon
Apr 2022 Chemistry Department at the University of Cincinnati, Hans Zimmer Seminar.
Jan 2020 European Conference on Novel Technologies for In-Vitro Diagnostics, DIATECH2020, Leuven, Belgium.
May 2019 NANTECH2019, Aalto, Finland
Apr 2019 DPG Spring Meeting, Regensburg, Germany
Feb 2019 EBS2019, 2nd European BioSensor Symposium, Florence, Italy
Jun 2019 14th Intern. Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chem. (ISMSC2019), Lecce, Italy
Jun 2018 3rd Conference on Molecular Rotors, Motors, and Switches, Telluride, Colorado, USA
Mar 2018 PITTCON 2018, Orlando, FL, USA (invited lecture for 2017 ACS lectureship award)
Sep 2017 “XIX Euroanalysis”, Stockholm, Sweden (plenary lecture)
Jun 2017 1st “NanoBioMed” Workshop, Alghero, Italy
Jun 2017 XIII Italian Conference on Supramolecular Chemistry, Pula, Italy

Publications (overview)

142 papers in ISI peer-reviewed journals
89 papers as corresponding author + 30 papers as first-author
H-index: 57
> 9300 total citations (Scopus May 2024)
70 papers in journals with impact factor (IF) > 10 (e.g. 22 JACS, 19 Angew. Chem., 7 Nano Lett., 3 Nat. Commun., 2 PNAS)
61 papers in journals with impact factor (IF) > 5 (Chem. Comm., Anal. Chem., Chem. Sc. etc.)