Mattia

Dr Mattia Silvi was born in Rieti (Italy) and obtained his BSc in Analytical Chemistry and MSc in Organic Chemistry at the University Sapienza (Rome, Italy) working in the laboratory of Prof. Marco Bella. He then carried out his doctoral studies at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, ICIQ (Tarragona, Spain) under the supervision of Prof. Paolo Melchiorre, working in the fields of organocatalysis and photochemistry (2011-2015). He spent part of his PhD studies at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI, United States) in the group of Prof. John P. Wolfe working in the field of palladium and silver catalysed organic reactions (2014). After obtained his PhD he was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Individual Fellowship and moved to the University of Bristol (United Kingdom) in the group of Prof. Varinder K. Aggarwal FRS, where he worked in the fields of boron chemistry, photochemistry and prostanoids synthesis (2016-2019). In 2019 he was awarded a Nottingham Research Fellowship to start his independent career at the GSK Carbon Neutral Laboratories, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom). In 2022 he was tenured as assistant professor, and in 2023 he was promoted to associate professor at the University of Nottingham. Mattia was awarded a number of prestigious international prizes and recognitions, including a 2023 Thieme Chemistry Journals Award, a 2022 ERC Starting Grant, a 2020 EPSRC New Investigator Award and was selected as 2020 outstanding reviewer for the RSC journal Chemical Science. His research interests lie within the fields of organic chemistry, photochemistry and asymmetric catalysis.

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Dr Mattia Silvi – Curriculum Vitae