Biosketch:

Education: PhD in Chemistry, University of Salerno, Italy (2000-2003); Degree in Chemistry, University of Napoli, Italy (1999).

Work Experience: Researcher at ICCOM-CNR Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy (2019-present); Postdoc at INO-CNR/LENS – European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy (2018-2019); Researcher (RTD a) at Chemistry Department, University of Florence, Italy (2012-2017); Postdoc at LENS – European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy (2010-2011); Postdoc at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2005-2010); Postdoc at Chemistry Department, University of Salerno, Italy (2003-2005).

Awards: National Scientific Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale, ASN 2017) as Associate Professor in Physical Chemistry; HFSP Short term fellowship (2005); EMBO short term fellowship (2005); Marie Curie training fellowship (2001).

Management: Team member project ‘APACE – Towards a bio-mimetic sunlight pumped laser based on photosynthetic antenna complexes’ EIC Pathfinder Challenge (2024-2028); Activity Manager project I-PHOQS – Integrated Infrastructure Initiative in Photonic and Quantum Sciences-Next Generation EU -PNRR (2023-2026); PI LENS transnational project RIANA-EU Horizon Europe (2023-2027); co-PI LENS transnational project LASERS4EU-EU Horizon Europe (2023-2027);
PI project FIRB2010-Fututo in Ricerca RBFR10Y5VW (2012-2017) ‘Studio del flusso di energia e carica in nuovi sistemi realizzati ad hoc, con complessità controllata e crescente: verso sistemi intelligenti per la fotovoltaica organica’;

Teaching: University of Florence, Chemistry Department, Corso di Laurea Specialistica in Scienze Chimiche: “Molecular Solids” (2015-2017); University of Florence, Chemistry Department: Corso di Laurea Specialistica in Scienze Chimiche: “Photochemistry” (2015-2016); University of Florence, Physics Department, Corso di Laurea Triennale in Ottica e Optometria: “Chemistry of Materials for Optics” (2016-2017); University of Florence, Chemistry Department, PhD Course in Chemistry “Applications of Ultrafast Spectroscopy’ (2015-2017). Free University of Amsterdam, Physics Department ‘Structure of the matter’ (2007-2010).

Other activities: Supervisor of undergraduate and PhD students in Physical Chemistry at LENS and University of Florence.

Publications: 115 articles, numerous  contributions to international conferences as poster and oral communications.

Bibliometric data: (Scopus, 16/02/2026): results: 115; sum of times cited: 2618; citing articles: 1805; h-index: 28.

Research interests: Molecular Photoswitches; Energy and electron transfer in complex molecular systems;  photovoltaics; ultrafast spectroscopy.

Alternative email address: didonato@lens.unifi.it

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