Alessandro Troisi Ph.D.
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Department of Chemistry |
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| University of Warwick |
Chemistry |
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| Coventry |
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RESEARCH PROFILEPhysical/Theoretical Chemistry
- Specific interests: Charge Transport in Organic Semiconductors
- Theory for Molecular Electronics
- Modelling Techniques for Molecular Self-Assembly
- Electron Transfer Reactions in Condensed Phase
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
- Propensity rules for inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy , Royal Society, Project Start Date: 01/10/2006 Project End Date: 30/09/2007
- The Emergence of Order in Molecular Self-Organization: an 'Agent-Based' view , Leverhulme Trust, Project Start Date: 01/10/2006 Project End Date: 01/10/2009
Education
PhD in Physical Chemistry (2001) University of Bologna
Career Highlights
BACKGROUND
Alessandro Troisi received his PhD in Physical Chemistry (2001) from the University of Bologna with a thesis on the charge transfer reactions in condensed phases. He became interested in the field of Molecular Electronic since his postdoctoral period at the Northwestern University (2002-2003) where he worked on the description of the electron transport through flexible molecules and developed a model for inelastic tunneling spectroscopy. In 2004-2005 he was a research fellow at the University of Bologna where he studied the charge transport mechanism in organic solid crystals. He joined the Department of Chemistry of the University of Warwick in October 2005 as a Research Council UK Fellow. His research interests include electron transport through single molecules and electronics materials, electron-phonon interactions, charge transfer reaction in condensed phase and biomolecules, electronic spectroscopy, theory of self-assembly and complexity in chemistry. Alessandro employs a broad range of computational chemistry methods but he focuses mostly on the theories linking computable quantities with experimental observables.
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