Research Director
email: barbara.ventura @isof.cnr.it
Office telephone: +39 051 639 9817
Building: Isof 4 – Floor: 1
Office number: 312
Barbara Ventura’s research activity deals with light energy collection and conversion in photoactive host-guest assemblies and supramolecular systems, study of luminescent materials for optoelectronics, energy conveying systems, electroluminescent devices, biomedical applications. Her expertise covers steady-state and time resolved absorption and emission spectroscopy for the characterization of the optical properties of materials. She has published to date 130 papers on ISI journals (h-index = 41, ISI WoS) and has presented more than 100 contributions to national and international congresses and workshops.
She has been and is currently involved in several National and European projects. The more recent projects are listed below:
- CNR/TÜBİTAK (Türkiye) Bilateral Cooperation Project SupraPhthal “Phthalocyanine-based host-guest supramolecular frameworks: assessing and modulating photoinduced energy/electron transfer processes for artificial photosynthesis applications” (2025-2026, role: PI)
- H2020-MSCA-ITN-2017-765297 NOAH “Network of Functional Molecular Containers with Controlled Switchable Abilities” (2018-2022, role: PI)
- H2020-MSCA-IF-2017-798952 PROMPT “New generation of porphyrinoids for mitochondria-targeted photodynamic therapy” (2019-2020, role: Coordinator)
- H2020-MSCA-IF-2017-800317 Enhanced-MUMs “Enhanced MUlti-Functional Membranes for Water Treatment and Desalination” (2018-2020, role: Coordinator)
- H2020-MSCA-IF-2016-751175 SmartMOFs “Smart Metal Organic Frameworks for Sensing Volatile Organic Compounds” (2017-2019, role: Coordinator)
- CNR-ASRT (Egypt) Bilateral Cooperation Project FLUO-NanoFAB “Development of innovative FLUOrescent sensors based on polymeric NanoFABrics loaded with xanthene dyes” (2016-2017, role: PI)
She collaborates with renowned researchers from National and International research centers (Collaboration Network).
Short CV:
Barbara Ventura got a MS degree in Chemistry (cum laude) at the University of Bologna in 1997, under the supervision of Prof. V. Balzani (winner of the “Myriam Borsari” award, University of Bologna, A.Y. 1995/96). She achieved a PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Bologna in 2002, under the supervision of Prof. C. Bovina. During the doctoral course she spent a research period at the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Stockholm University, Sweden (supervisors Prof. G. Dallner and Prof. P. Sindelar). From 2002 to 2007 she had post-doctoral experience at the Institute for Organic Synthesis and Photoreactivity (ISOF-CNR) in Bologna, under the supervision of Dr. L. Flamigni, Dr. F. Barigelletti and Dr. A. Barbieri. From 2008 to 2010 she held a non-permanent researcher position at ISOF-CNR, where she was appointed permanent researcher in 2010, senior researcher in 2019 and research director in 2021.
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