Mauro Sambi was born in Pola (Croatia) on May 21, 1968.

Degrees: PhD in Chemical Sciences (Padova; Final examination: Rome, 1997); Laurea Degree in Chemistry, summa cum laude (1993); Scientific High School Degree (Italian High School, Pola, 1986; with full marks).

Present position: Full Professor of General and Inorganic Chemistry at the Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova.

Research activity: coordination chemistry of small molecules on inorganic surfaces; structure/properties relationships in nanostructured inorganic solids; epitaxial ultrathin films and clusters on crystal surfaces; molecular self-assembly on inorganic surfaces and on-surface synthesis of systems relevant for artificial photosynthesis, organic photovoltaics and oxygen reduction catalysis; development of new methods for the structural characterization of inorganic solid surfaces. Coordinator of a University of Padova Research Project (PRAT) in 2004-2005. He participated to several PRIN projects, to the INFM Advanced Research Project “ISADORA”, to the STRP European Project “Nanostructures for Chemical Sensors – NanoChemSens” coordinated by K. Schierbaum (Düsseldorf). He coordinates the characterization research unit within the University of Padova Strategic Research Project “HELIOS” (Highly Efficient Light Interactions with Organized molecular Systems, 2009-2012) and vice-coordinates the Padova Research Unit within the PRIN 2010/11 Project “DESCARTES”. He co-authors over 80 peer-reviewed papers in ISI international scientific journals. He is peer-reviewer for ACS Nano, The Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nature Chemistry, Physical Review B, Physical Review Letters, The Journal of Physical Chemistry, Surface Science, ecc.

Experimental and computational skills: epitaxial growth and molecular beam deposition in ultra-high vacuum (UHV); UHV characterization techniques: electron and photoelectron spectroscopies and diffraction (including the theoretical simulations of photoelectron diffraction patterns), scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM). UHV systems design. He started up the STM Lab at the Department of Chemical Sciences and holds its scientific responsibility.

Main acknowledgements for research activity: ENICHEM thesis prize (1993); “Ugo Croatto” Prize for the results achieved during the PhD at the University of Padua (1996); Young Scientist Award at the Winter Workshop on Photoelectron Diffraction, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA (1996); National Prize of the Inorganic Chemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society for the best PhD thesis (1997); “Alceste Mion” Prize of the University of Padova (2001).

Institutional activity: Scientific Coordinator of the Chemistry Library "Cesare Pecile"; Member of the Executive Council of the PhD Course in Molecular Sciences, Member of the Resources Commission of the Department of Chemical Sciences, Member of the Padova University Press Editorial Board. President of the Study Board of Chemistry (2013-2017); Coordinator of the Teaching Commission of the Department of Chemical Sciences (2015-2017).

Selected publications

1. Substrate involvement in dioxygen bond dissociation catalysed by iron phthalocyanine supported on Ag(100)
   Sedona F, Lo Cicero M, Carlotto S, Basagni A, Fakhrabadi MMS, Casarin M and Sambi M
   Chem. Commun. 2018, 54, 9418-9421.


2. Switching from Reactant to Substrate Engineering in the Selective Synthesis of Graphene Nanoribbons
   Merino-Diez N, Lobo-Checa L, Nita P, Garcia-Leuke A, Basagni A, Vasseur G, Tiso F, Sedona F, Das PK, Fuji J, Vobornik I, Sambi M, Pascual JI, Ortega JE and de Oteyza DG
   J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2018, 9, 2510-2517.


3. Metal-Free on-Surface Photochemical Homocoupling of Terminal Alkynes
   Colazzo L, Sedona F, Moretto A, Casarin M, Sambi M
   J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 10151-10156.


4. Tunable Band Alignment with Unperturbed Carrier Mobility of On-Surface Synthesized Organic Semiconducting Wires
   Basagni A, Vasseur G, Pignedoli CA, Vilas-Varela M, Peña D, Nicolas L, Vitali L, Lobo-Checa J, de Oteyza DG, Sedona F, Casarin M, Ortega JE, Sambi M
   ACS Nano 2016, 10, 2644-2651.


5. Role of the Substrate Orientation in the Photoinduced Electron Dynamics at the Porphyrin/Ag Interface
   Tognolini S, Ponzoni S, Sedona F, Sambi M, Pagliara S
   J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2015, 6, 3632–3638.


6. On-surface photo-dissociation of the C-Br bond: towards room temperature Ullmann coupling
   Basagni A, Ferrighi L, Cattelan M, Nicolas L, Handrup K, Vaghi L, Papagni A, Sedona F, Di Valentin C, Agnoli S, Sambi M
   Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 12593-12596.


7. Reversible Fe Magnetic Moment Switching in Catalytic Oxygen Reduction Reaction of Fe-Phthalocyanine Adsorbed on Ag(110)
   Bartolomé J, Bartolomé F, Brookes N, Sedona F, Basagni A, Sambi M
   J. Phys. Chem. C 2015, 119, 12488-12495.


8. Molecules–Oligomers–Nanowires–Graphene Nanoribbons: A Bottom-Up Stepwise On-Surface Covalent Synthesis Preserving Long-Range Order
   Basagni A, Sedona F, Pignedoli C A, Cattelan M, Nicolas L, Casarin M, Sambi M
   J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 1802-1808.


9. Stereoselective Photopolymerization of Tetraphenylporphyrin Derivatives on Ag(110) at the Sub-Monolayer Level
   Basagni A, Colazzo L, Sedona F, Di Marino M, Carofiglio T, Lubian E, Forrer D, Vittadini A, Casarin M, Verdini A, Cossaro A, Floreano L, Sambi M
   Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 14296-14304. (Hot Paper, Back Cover)


10. Structurally Tunable Self-Assembled 2D Cocrystals of C-60 and Porphyrins on the Ag (110) Surface
    Sedona F, Di Marino M, Basagni A, Colazzo L, Sambi M
    J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 1587-1593.


11. Tuning the catalytic activity of Ag(110)-supported Fe phthalocyanine in the oxygen reduction reaction.
    Sedona F, Di Marino M, Forrer D, Vittadini A, Casarin M, Cossaro A, Floreano L, Verdini A, Sambi M
    Nat. Mater. 2012, 11, 970-977.


12. Chromium wheels quasi-hexagonal 2D assembling by direct UHV sublimation.
    Rancan M, Sedona F, Di Marino M, Armelao L, Sambi M
    Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 5744-5746.


13. Fullerene/Porphyrin Multicomponent Nanostructures on Ag(110): from Supramolecular Self-Assembly to Extended Copolymers.
    Sedona F, Di Marino M, Sambi M, Carofiglio T, Lubian E, Casarin M, Tondello E
    ACS NANO 2010, 4, 5147-5154.