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Paola BELANZONI

Università degli Studi di Perugia, IT

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Title: Computational modelling of cooperative small molecule activation by apolar and weakly polar bonds

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Paola Belanzoni studied Chemistry at the University of Perugia (Italy), where she obtained her PhD focusing on theoretical investigations on inorganic systems. During her PhD and Postdoctoral research career she spent several periods at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, working in collaboration with Professor Evert Jan Baerends, within the Theoretical Inorganic Chemistry field, by investigating the electronic structure, bonding and magnetic properties of transition-metal containing systems by Density Functional Theory approach. She was also involved in four-component and two-component relativistic studies on heavy-element containing systems, working in collaboration with Professor Harry Quiney at the School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne. She has been visiting Professor at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in Pohang(South Korea), where she carried out research work on the oxidative catalysis within the WCU (World Class University) project funded by Korea Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. She has been member of the Management Commette ECOSTBio - COST Action CM1305 "Explicit Control Over Spin-states in Technology and Biochemistry (ECOSTBio)"  (2014-2018). She is a Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology of the University of Perugia since 2007, and she is a teacher of Inorganic Chemistry, Bioinorganic Chemistry and Foundations of Quantum Chemistry courses. Her current research interests mainly concern homogeneous gold-catalysis, organometallic compounds and reactivity, bio-inspired inorganic catalysts, heavy-element containing compound properties, and small molecule activation processes with metal-aluminyls, from the theoretical and computational perspective.