Chiara Massera. March 29th 1973 / Milano, Italy

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1 Personal data Full name: Date / Place of birth: Nationality: Marital status: University Address: Tel.: Chiara Massera March 29th 1973 / Milano, Italy Italian Married, 1 daughter Viale delle Scienze 17/A Parma, Italy (mobile) chiara.massera@unipr.it Professional Experience Researcher and Lecturer University of Parma, Italy 1999-Present Department of Chemistry - Associate Professor specialised in the analysis of supramolecular complexes and coordination compounds with the aim of studying molecular recognition phenomena and elucidating structurefunction correlations and topology through single crystal X-ray diffraction techniques and computational methods. - Co-author of over 100 scientific papers published in international peer-reviewed journals and of a European Patent. h-index: 27 (source: Scopus) Lecturer for the Engineering Departments of the same University Education and Training Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Parma, Italy Dept. of Chemistry, Prof. Dr. A. Tiripicchio Title: Synthesis and structural characterisation of transition metal selenido-carbonyl clusters M. Sc. (cum laude) in Inorganic Chemistry, University of Parma, Italy Dept. of Chemistry, Prof. Dr. A. Tiripicchio Title: Cluster e colloidi. Sintesi di derivati metallici fosfino-selenurici mono- e polinucleari e produzione di nanoparticelle di oro incapsulate in matrici sol-gel.

2 Additional experiences Visiting scientist University of Marburg, Germany October 2002-March 2003 Department of Chemistry Prof. Dr. Frenking - Research visit financed by a scholarship of the German academic exchange organization DAAD (Deutscher Akademische Austausch Dienst, aimed at acquiring initial experience in the field of computational chemistry - Project: DFT (Density Functional Theory) analysis of the chemical bond in metal complexes of palladium, platinum, and nickel with ethene and ethyne. Study of metal-ligand bonding in complexes using the energy-partitioning analysis (EPA) of the ADF software package, based on the EDA method of Morokuma et al. and the ETS partitioning scheme of Ziegler et al. Scientific Stage (8 months), Université L. Pasteur, Strasbourg, France Sept. Dec Coordination Chemistry Laboratory, Prof. Dr. P. Braunstein Mar.-Jun Subject: Synthesis of new transition-metal selenido clusters Other - Prize for the best Ph.D thesis in Inorganic Chemistry of the Italian Chemistry Society in Referee for several international journals (CrystEngComm, ICA, Inorg. Chem., RSC Advances, etc.) - Promoter and vice-chair of GIG3, General Interest Group on Education in Crystallography within ECA ( - Member of the teaching commission of AIC for the years Editor for Acta Crystallographica Section E. - Member of INSTM (Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per la Scienza e la Tecnologia dei Materiali), a consortium for Material Science and Technology - Professional translation of scientific patents from English to Italian in the years Translation of chapters 24/25 and Appendices of the book Brown/Lemay Chemistry 10th Ed, ed. EdiSES from English to Italian Language skills: Italian (native), English (fluent), French (very good), German (good)

3 List of the 20 most relevant publications 1) Resorcinarene-based cavitands as building blocks for crystal engineering. CrystEngComm, 2016, 18, ) Chemoselective recognition with phosphonate cavitands: the ephedrine over pseudoephedrine case. Chemical Communications, 2015, 51, ) Cavitand-grafted silicon microcantilevers as a universal probe for illicit and designer drugs in water. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition, 2014, 53, ) Analysis of the contribution of the p-acidity of the s-tetrazine ring in the crystal packing of coordination polymers. CrystEngComm, 2013, 15, ) Exclusive recognition of sarcosine in water and urine by a cavitand-functionalized silicon surface. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2012, 109, ) Supramolecular Control of Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Transformation through Selective Guest Exchange. Chemistry - A European Journal, 2011, 17, ) Formation of tetrameric water clusters driven by a cavitand template. Chemical Communications, 2010, 46, ) Tetraphosphonate Cavitands: Interplay between Metal Coordination and H-Bonding in the Formation of Dimeric Capsules. CrystEngComm, 2010, 12,

4 9) Self-assembly of heteroditopic calix[4]arene capsules through ion-pair recognition. CrystEngComm, 2009, 11, ) 3-D Lanthanide Metal-Organic Frameworks: Structure, Photoluminescence, and Magnetism. Inorganic Chemistry, 2009, 48, ) Molecular Recognition on a Cavitand-Functionalized Silicon Surface. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009, 131, ) Self-assembly of a double calix[6]arene pseudorotaxane in oriented channels. Chemistry - A European Journal, 2008, 14, ) Supramolecular Sensing with Phosphonate Cavitands. Chemistry - A European Journal, 2008, 14, ) Crystallographic Evidence of Nitrate-p Interactions Involving the Electron-Deficient 1,3,5- Triazine Ring. Inorganic Chemistry, 2006, 45, ) Conformational Behavior of Pyrazine-Bridged and Mixed-Bridged Cavitands: A General Model for Solvent Effects on Thermal Vase-Kite Switching. Chemistry - A European Journal, 2006, 12, ) Crystallographic and Theoretical Evidence of Acetonitrile-p Interactions with the Electron- Deficient 1,3,5-Triazine Ring. Crystal Growth & Design, 2006, 6, ) Intermolecular interactions between benzene and 1,3,5-triazine: a new tool for crystal engineering and molecular recognition. CrystEngComm, 2005, 7, ) Calix[6]arene-based pseudorotaxanes: a solid state structural investigation. CrystEngComm, 2004, 6,

5 19) Rational Design of Cavitand receptors for Mass Sensors. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2003, 125, ) Energy Partitioning Analysis of the Bonding in L 2 TM-C 2 H 2 and L 2 TM-C 2 H 4 (TM = Ni, Pd, Pt; L 2 = (PH 3 ) 2, (PMe 3 ) 2, H 2 PCH 2 PH 2, H 2 P(CH 2 ) 2 PH 2 ). Organometallics, 2003, 22,