People

Manuel

Manuel was born in Italy. He obtained a master degree and a Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences at the University of Milan under the supervision of Prof. M. Benaglia and F. Cozzi. In 2016 he joined the group of M. S. Sigman (University of Utah) where he worked on Pd-catalysis and Multidimensional Correlation Analysis. In 2018 Manuel moved back to Italy and after a short period at the University of Milan working for Janssen, he joined the Department of Chemical Sciences (DISC) of the University of Padova as an assistant professor. His research interests span from asymmetric catalysis and organic synthesis to physical organic chemistry.

Manuel received the 2022 – Thieme Chemistry Journals Award and the 2021 “Methodology in Organic Chemistry – Junior” Prize from the Italian Chemical Society.

Current Group Members

Besma Boulila
(Postdoctoral fellow)

Piero Soppelsa
(2nd year PhD student)

Mattia Sartorello
(1st year PhD student)

Riccardo Bellin
(Master student)

Alumni and Past Collaborators

2024 – Francesco Vaghi (Postdoctoral fellow)
2024 – Niccoló De Cesare (M.Sc.)
2023 – Silvia Franco (M.Sc.)
2023 – Mattia Sartorello (M.Sc.)
2023 – Piero Soppelsa (M.Sc.)
2022 – Giacomo Pugliese (M.Sc.)
2022 – Niccoló Celsan (M.Sc.)
2022 – Benito Marazzi (visiting M.Sc. from U. of Giessen)
2020 – Margarita Escudero-Casao (Postdoctoral fellow)
2019 – Filippo Campagnolo (M.Sc.)