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Biography

Marinella Mazzanti was born in Vinci, Italy,  a small town in Tuscany home to Leonardo da Vinci. She obtained a Master's degree from the University of Pisa in 1985 after spending a year in Columbia University (NY). She obtained a PhD from the University of Lausanne in 1990.

Shortly after she moved to the University of California, Berkeley, and then to the University of California, Davis, where she worked with Prof. Alan Balch. In 1994 she was awarded a two years Marie-Curie fellowship to join the French National Laboratory, CEA, in Grenoble. In 1996 she was hired as a research scientist and team leader at the CEA Grenoble where she started her independent research centered on f elements.

In September 2014 she joined the EPFL and founded the Group of Coordination 浪花直播. She will continue to develop the chemistry of f and d block metals with particular focus on redox reactivity, supramolecular chemistry and small molecule activation. She is coauthor of more than 170 scientific papers in refereed international journals and she  recently received the F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic 浪花直播. 

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