Invited seminar
Author: Assoc. Prof. Adolfo Speghini
Affiliation: University of Verona
When: Wednesday, June 12, 2019 - 11:00 to 12:00
Where: Seminari 1ª planta - Edifici d'Investigació 1
Presented by: Beatriz Julián
Biography: 
Adolfo Speghini, born in 1963, received his MD (1988) in chemistry and PhD (1992) in chemistry from the University of Padova (Italy). After a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Verona, he became University Researcher (1997) and then Associate Professor of Inorganic Chemistry (2006) at the Department of Biotechnology, the University of Verona. He was a Visiting Scientist at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada), Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences (Wroclaw, Poland), Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Madrid, Spain), Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana (Mexico City, Mexico), Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany) and Visiting professor at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (Quebec, Canada). The research activity has been devoted to investigations of different aspects of inorganic chemistry and materials. In particular, the main subjects were on the synthesis, the structural, vibrational and spectroscopic properties of bulk (crystalline and glasses) and nanostructured systems, in particular containing luminescent transition metal and lanthanide ions. In the last few years, big efforts have been spent in the study of nanostructured inorganic materials (oxide or fluoride based) doped with luminescent lanthanide ions for possible applications in the biomedical field, in particular as multimodal optical and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents.