The team PhD Students
PhD Students
Consuelo Bigelli
Consuelo got her Bachelor's degree in Chemistry (cum laude) in October 2020 from the University of Camerino with a computational thesis titled “Computational Studies on the Copper (I) Catalyzed Mechanism of the A3 Coupling Reaction,” supervised by Prof. Bacchiocchi and Prof. Cimarelli.
In December 2023, she completed her Master’s degree in Chemistry (inorganic curriculum) cum laude at the University of Pisa with a master's thesis on the computational study of the activation mechanism of carbon dioxide by frustrated Lewis pairs using the EDA-NOCV method supervised by Prof. Ciancaleoni.
In November 2023, she began her PhD at the LAMM (Laboratory of Molecular Magnetism) of the University of Florence, working within the Perfetti Group of Prof. Perfetti and the EST-Lab on the project “Study of the Magnetic Anisotropy of Metal Complexes Through Ab Initio Methodologies.”
Denez Raimbault
Denez Raimbault is a French PhD student in theoretical chemistry at the University of Florence, coming from the city of Nantes. His PhD is about the computational investigation of magnetic nanographenes adsorbed on surfaces. The focus is on the study of interactions between nanographenes and the surface, magnetic exchange, and the effect of an electric field on the nanographenes’ properties.
Denez's bachelor’s degree in chemistry was obtained at the University of Nantes. The bachelor’s internship was done at the CEISAM laboratory in Nantes under the supervision of Dr.Eric Renault and dealt with the study of Protactinium (+IV and +V) complexes. His master’s degree in chemistry (LUMOMAT) was done in the universities of Nantes and Angers, and was mainly focused on light-matter interactions.
Then his first-year master’s internship was conducted at the CEISAM laboratory under the supervision of Prof. Denis Jacquemin, focusing on assessing the accuracy of BSE/GW excited-state geometries using optimal-tuning. Whereas his second internship was conducted at the theoretical chemistry laboratory at Namur, Belgium, under the supervision of Prof. Benoît Champagne, and focused on the study of Herzberg-Teller contributions to UV-Visible spectra using TD-DFT.
Alessandro Galli
Alessandro Galli was born in Milan. He achieved his Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry at the University of Pavia, with a thesis entitled “Nitric oxide: biochemistry and frontiers of application in the plant field”.
He then pursued a Master’s degree in Organic Chemistry, graduating with 110L/110. During his master's degree, Alessandro attended, in addition to courses in organic synthesis, courses in computational chemistry and reaction mechanisms. His Master’s thesis project was on “Application of machine learning to asymmetric Diels–Alder reactions catalyzed by rare earth metals.”
He is currently doing a PhD in Chemical Sciences at the University of Florence, in the LAMM Group, working on “Computational design of magnetic nanographenes through ab initio methods and artificial intelligence".
