Simona Fantacci

Simona Fantacci has been working, since her PhD, in the field of theoretical and computational inorganic chemistry by employing DFT and TDDFT methods. She has published 104 peer review papers (including some in Angewandte Chemie, Chemical Reviews, Accounts of Chemical Research, Journal of American Chemical Society), with a total number of citations of 8718, and an h-index of 41 (source, Web of Science, 31/01/2020). She has a consolidated expertise in the modeling of organometallic and organic dyes for Dye-Sensitized Solar cells, with special focus on the interaction of dyes with TiO2 and on the characterization of the related hybrid interfaces, Figure 1. She has investigated the optical properties of organometallic complexes for OLED and NLO applications. In the last years she has moved to the modelling of cultural heritage materials with the aim to direct her unique expertise to the comprehension of dyestuff structure-properties relationships and the chemical-physical processes underlying the degradation, Figure 2.

-1995 Master Thesis in Chemistry, University of Perugia
-1999 PhD in Chemical Sciences, University of Perugia
-1999-2001 post-Doc at Chemistry Department, University of Perugia. 
-From September 2001 is a research scientist at the Institute of Molecular Science and Technologies (CNR-ISTM) in Perugia.
-November 2002 –July 2003 is a visiting research scientist at the Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
- Since January 2010 she is a senior research scientist at CNR-ISTM (Perugia), and from 2019 she continues her research activity at CNR-SCITEC (Perugia)