Dante Gatteschi - Curriculum vitae#

Education: Laurea cum laude, University of Florence,1969
Academic Supervisors: Prof. Luigi Sacconi, Prof. Ivano Bertini, University of Florence


Academic career:

• Assistente, University of Florence, 1969 1980
• Lecturer, University of Florence, 1976 1980
• Professor of Chemistry, University of Florence, 1980

Awards:

• Nasini Award of the Italian Chemical Society, 1979
• Magnetic Resonance Award of the Italian Chemical Society, 1993
• Van Arkel Honorary Chair, Leiden University, 1999
• Muetterties Memorial Lecture, UC Berkeley, 2000
• Bruker Prize for EPR Spectroscopy, 2000
• Blaise Pascal Chair, 2001, Paris
• Agilent Technologies Europhysics Prize 2002
• Laurea h.c. in Materials Science, University of Cagliari, Italy, 2005
• John Francis Vigani Lecture, awarded by Royal Society of Chemistry - Dalton Division, Material Chemistry Forum and Società Chimica Italiana, University of Cambridge, Great Britain, 2006.
• Franco-Italian Prize 2007 of the Société Francaise de Chimie and of the Società Chimica Italiana
• Member of the Accademia Toscana di Scienze e Lettere La Colombaria, of the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei Quaranta, of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina and of the Academia Europaea

Research interests:

• Theoretical Inorganic Chemistry
• Magnetic Interactions
• Electronic Structure of Metal Complexes
• Interactions Metal Ions
• Organic Radicals
• EPR Spectroscopy
• Magnetic Molecular Materials.

Publications: >540

Quotations: ISI Highly Cited Researcher

Books:

R. D. Willett, D. Gatteschi, O. Kahn (Editors), “Magneto Structural Correlations in Exchange Coupled Systems", NATO ASI C 140, Reidel, Dordrecht, 1985

A. Bencini, D. Gatteschi "EPR of Exchange Coupled Systems", Springer Verlag, 1990.

D. Gatteschi, O. Kahn, J.S. Miller, F. Palacio (Editors), "Magnetic Molecular Materials", NATO ASI E 198, Plenum, 1991

E. Coronado, P. Delhaès, D. Gatteschi, J.S. Miller (Editors), “Molecular Magnetism: from Molecular Assemblies to the Devices”, NATO ASI E 321, Kluwer, 1996 D. Gatteschi, R. Sessoli, J. Villain “Molecular Nanomagnets”, Oxford University Press, 2006.

Services:

• Member of the Editorial Board of the New Journal of Chemistry, Gazzetta Chimica Italiana, Journal of Materials Chemistry, Advanced Materials, Comments in Inorganic Chemistry, Chemistry of Materials, Journal of Rare Earths, Angewandte Chemie
• Chairman, Chemistry Department, University of Florence, 1985-1988
• Chairman, Interdivisional Group of Magnetic Resonances, Italian Chemical Society, 1989-91
• Chairman, Consortium of Italian Universities for the Chemistry of Materials, 1992-1997
• Chairman, Consortium of Italian Universities for the Science and Technology of Materials, 1997 -
• Coordinator Research Training Network on molecular magnetic materials in the III, IV, V, and VI Framework Program of the EC
• Coordinator Marie Curie Training Site Center “Molmag” in the V e VI Framework Program of the EC
• Coordinator of the Network of Excellence “Magmanet” in the VI Framework Program of the EC
• Chairman of the European Institute of Molecular Magnetism

Current Research Interest

Molecule-based magnets, molecular nanomagnets, large magnetic clusters, single-chain magnets. Molecular Magnetic nanostructures: Organization and characterization of magnetic molecules on surfaces. Physical characterization of Magnetic Molecular Materials (NMR and EPR of exchange-coupled materials; Magneto-Optical Kerr effect at low temperatures)