CURRICULUM VITAE

Michele Pavone, Ph.D. – michele.pavone@unina.it
Full Professor of Physical Chemistry (CHEM-02/A)

Personal info 
Born in Naples (IT) on June 04 1981, married with one dauther.

Academic track
2024 – present Full Professor of Physical Chemistry, Univ. of Naples Federico II 
2015 – 2024 Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry, Univ. of Naples Federico II
2008 – 2015 Researcher (Assistant Professor), Univ. of Naples Federico II
2007 Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences, Univ. of Naples Federico II
2004 Laurea (cum laude) in Chemistry, Univ. of Naples Federico II

Research experiences
2012 – present Principal Investigator (PI) in the MUSICHEM laboratory at Univ. of Naples Federico II
2010 – 2012 Associate Research Scholar (2 years) at Princeton University (USA) in the group of prof. Emily A. Carter
2002 – 2010 Member of the research group of prof. Vincenzo Barone at Univ. of Naples Federico II
2005 – 2006 Visiting Graduate Student Research Collaborator (1 year) at Princeton University (USA) in the group of Prof. Emily A. Carter
2003 – 2004 Visiting Scholar (3 months) at ENSCP, Paris (France), in the group of prof. Carlo Adamo

Awards
2017 Featured among Emerging Investigators 2017 in the field of Materials for Energy by the Journal of Materials Chemistry A (Royal Society of Chemistry)
2016 Carla Roetti prize as best researcher under 40 from the Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society
2008 Winner – Start Cup Federico II with the business-plan Genenvet
2008 Giovanni Semerano award from the Physical Chemistry Division of Italian Chemical Society for the best Italian PhD thesis in physical chemistry
2005 Mario Mazzetti prize of Science Literature and Arts National Society in Naples for the best experimental thesis degree in chemistry

Scientific activity
The research of Michele Pavone is focused on the development and the application of computational tools based on Quantum Chemistry for studying physico-chemical properties, processes and phenomena in complex chemical systems, a complete list of scientific products is freely available via Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com/MichelePavone/