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Paolo Melchiorre was born in 1973 in Camerino, Italy.
He studied Chemistry at the University of Bologna – Alma Mater Studiorum (Italy), where he graduated in 1999. After a brief stint in the biology research program at Bologna University working with Professor Giuliana Cardillo, he began his doctoral studies in Chemistry working in the area of asymmetric catalysis, under the direction of Professor Achille Umani-Ronchi and the supervision of Professor Pier Giorgio Cozzi.
Before obtaining his PhD degree in 2003, he spent 10 months in Denmark working with Professor Karl Anker Jørgensen at the Center for Catalysis, Århus University, where his studies centered on asymmetric organocatalysis.
Afterwards, he worked as a postdoctoral associate with Professor Giuseppe Bartoli, at the Industrial Chemistry Faculty of the Bologna University. Here he began his studies on the development of novel organocatalytic asymmetric transformations.
In October 2007 he took a permanent position as an Assistant Professor at Bologna University.
In September 2009 he moved to the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) in Tarragona as an ICREA (Catalan Institution of Research and Advanced Studies) Professor and ICIQ Group Leader.
His group’s research interests center around the design of novel organocatalysts, which allow previously elusive synthetic transformations, and the development of organocatalytic cascade reactions for streamlining the process of complex molecule synthesis.
Paolo Melchiorre has received several awards including the “G. Ciamician” Medal, awarded by the Italian Chemical Society (2007), and the Thieme Journal Prize (2009). He was also nominated Liebig Lecturer 2008 by the Organic Division of the German Chemical Society.
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