Fabio Rizzo

The research activity is focused on the design, synthesis and photophysical characterization of luminescent organic and organometallic compounds. The spectroscopic investigation involved the absorption as well as the emission characterization in the visible and near infrared region by means of steady state and time resolved techniques for the determination of lifetimes. The new compounds are applied in several fields, for example non-linear optics. An intense research activity is devoted to the preparation of organic compounds for electrochemiluminescence (ECL) both in solution and solid state, which is obtained through the growth of self-assembled monolayers onto electrode surfaces. Another field of reasearch focuses on water soluble luminescent organic compounds for cellular bioimaging and protein detection.

2003 – MSc “Laurea” in Materials Science at Università di Milano-Bicocca
2007 – PhD in Science and Technologies of Chemical Processes at Università di Genova
2007 – 2008 – Postdoc at Università di Milano
2008 – 2011 – Postdoc CNR at Institute of Molecular Sciences and Technologies (ISTM)
from 2011 - Researcher CNR at ISTM and from 2019 Institute of Chemical Sciences and Technologies “Giulio Natta” (SCITEC)no.