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Students Mobility

Collaborations within of the doctorate in chemical sciences are particularly active, and academic exchanges are valued within the foreign groups of research. This underscores the importance of the legacies to research plan capacities. We continue the directory of the doctoral candidates that have already occurred of such exchanges.

Students who have  already benefited from International Exchange:

Students that are benefiting from International Exchange:

Students who are going to benefit from  International Exchange:
 

International Seminars in the PhD Program in Chemical Science

27th March 2008, Seminars on "Urin Biobank e Metabolome", by Prof. G. Valensin.

Martedì 11 Dicembre 2007, Prof. Enzo Tiezzi: ECOSYSTEMS BECOMING; La Medaglia d’oro Prigogine a Robert E. Ulanowicz, dell’Università del Maryland (U.S.A.); Aspetti Epistemologici;   Configurations of Processes

Giovedì 29 Novembre 2007, Prof. Enzo Tiezzi, Prof. Nadia Marchettini, Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche e dei Biosistemi, Università di Siena: GLOBAL CHANGE; L’Effetto Serra e i suoi aspetti chimico-fisici; Il premio Nobel per la Pace all’I.P.C.

24th October 2007, 15.00, Prof. Walter Alvarez, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A., Laurea Honoris Causa in Scienze Geologiche, Università di Siena: “The Noble (but neglected!) History of Geology as a Science:  The Copernican Revolution and the Portuguese Voyages of Discovery”

24 October 2007, 11.00, Dr. David C.P. Peacock, Fugro Robertson Ltd., Llandudno, Wales (UK): “ The Geometry and Evolution of Transfer Zones”.

3rd October 2007, Prof. Gregg Orloff Senior Lecturer of Biology, Biology Department, Emory University, Atlanta, USA: “History, development and future of the CancerQuest website (www.cancerquest.org) an overview cancer biology using the site content”

27th September 2007, Dr. Brenda Valderrama, Instituto de Biotecnologia UNAM – México: “HEMEPROTEINS AND THE OXYGEN PARADOX”

18th April 2007, Prof. Anatol Zhabotinsky, Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham (USA): "A story of chemical oscillations and waves"

30 January 2007, Prof. David Christianson, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (USA): "Arginase: structure, mechanism  and physiological role in male and female sexual arousal"

15 January 2007, Neil V Blough, Department of Chemistry, University of Maryland, College Park: "Production of CO2 by the photochemical oxidation of carbon in ocean waters"

15 January 2007, Rossana Del Vecchio, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), University of Maryland, College Park: "The study of dissolved carbon dynamics using satellite ocean measurements"

12 Dicembre 2006, Prof. Luigi Messori, Università di Firenze: “Antitumorali metallici classici ed innovativi”.

31st October 2006, Dr. Morosini Marco, ETH-Zentrum, Zurigo: "Sistemi di indicatori di sviluppo sostenibile

4th October 2006, Dr. Friedhelm Lendzian, Max-Volmer Laboratory, Technical University Berlin: “Structure of Amino Acid Radical Intermediates in Enzymatic Reactions studied by Freeze-Quench High-Field EPR”.

4th October 2006, Dr. Christian Teutloff, Institute of Experimetal Physics, Free University, Berlin: “Density Funtional Theory Calculation on Amino Acid Radicals: a helpful tool for assigning the electronic to Molecular Structure”.

27 giugno 2006, Prof. Ashutosh Chilkoti, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University (USA) : “Building with Macromolecules on Surfaces with nanometer Precision”.

26 giugno 2006, Prof. T. Morkin, Prof. M. McCormick, apertura “Summer School Emory-Siena Chemistry for Life and Environment”.

06 aprile 2006, Prof. Michel Pinéri, Centre pour l'Energie Atomique, Grenoble:  "Current limitations of organic membranes in the application of PEM fuel cells for automotive applications"

16 dicembre 2005, Prof. John Meurig Thomas: “The unpredictability of Science and its consequences”

19 ottobre 2005, Dr. Brenda Valderrama, Molecular Medicine and Bio process Department, Biotechnology Institute, National University of Mexico:"Oxidative stabilization of cytochrome c by redox-inspired protein engineering"

15 Settembre 2005, Prof. Jiri Spevacek, Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry AS CR - Prague: "NMR study of temperature-induced phase separation in aqueous polymer solutions"

29 aprile 2005, Prof. Fritjof Capra: "Scienza per una vita sostenibile"

30 marzo 2005, Prof. Daniele Passerone, Computational Laboratory (COLAB) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland: "Principi variazionali della meccanica, eventi rari ed intersezioni coniche: nuovi metodi in fisica e chimica"

24 febbraio 2005, Prof. Mauro F.A. Adamo, Royal College of Surgeons, Dublino: "Diversity Oriented Syntheses using polyfuntional Scaffolds"

23 febbraio 2005, Prof. Mauro F.A. Adamo, Royal College of Surgeons, Dublino: "Application of Diversity Oriented Syntheses to Drug Discovery"

15 febbraio 2005, Dr. Pedro Lomas, Dipartimento di Ecologia, Università di Madrid: "Emergy analysis of spain (1980/1994/2000). Environmental accounting and sustainability in a mediterranean context"

5 novembre 2004, Prof. Mathis Wackernagel, Global Footprint Network, USA: "Ecological Footprint of cities:how to live well within the earth’s budget"

14 ottobre 2004, Prof. Rafael Vazquez-Duhalt, Università del Messico, Cuernavaca (UNAM): "Peroxidase activity for environmental purposes, opportunities and
challenges"

8 ottobre 2004, Prof. Santiago Alvarez, Dipartimento de Química Inorgànica
dell’Università di Barcellona: "Polyhedral Shapes in Chemistry: Continuous Shape measures, Shape Maps and Interconversion Paths"

21 settembre 2004, Dr. Friedhelm Lendzian, Max-Volmer-Laboratory, Institute for Chemistry, Technical University of Berlin: "Structure and Protein Interactions of Transient Amino Acid Radicals in Enzymatic Reactions Studied by High-Field EPR Spectroscopy"

20 settembre 2004, Professor Chi-Ming Che, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China: "Structural and spectroscopic evidence for weak metal-metal interactions and metal-substrate exciplex formation"

18 giugno 2004, Prof. B.A. Kazimee, School of Architecture and Construction Management, Washington State University, U.S.A.: "Sustainable urban regenerative process and densification: theory and practice"

16 giugno 2004, Prigogine Lectures: Prof. S.V. Jorghensen, The Royal Danish School of Pharmacy, Copenhagen: "Towards a thermodynamics of biological systems"

15 giugno 2004, Prof. L. Feldman, Energy, Environment, and Resources Center and
National Center for Environmental Decision-making Research, Knoxville, Tennessee (U.S.A.): "Risk management at a brownfields site: a case study in long-term stewardship"

14 giugno 2004, Prof. R.D. Stenner, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Risk Analysis and Health Protection Group, Richland (U.S.A.): "Relative hazaed and risk measure calculation methodology"

10 giugno 2004, Prof. T. Tenno, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Tartu: "Remediation of Contaminated Sites in Estonia"

20 aprile 2004, Prof. Holger Kantz, Nonlinear dynamics and time series analysis group, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden: "Time series analysis: from dynamical systems to stochastic processes and to the prediction of extreme events"

22 Marzo 2004, Prof. Catherine C. Fenselau, University of Maryland: "Separation Techniques for Comparative Proteomics"

5 Febbraio 2004, Dr. Trista Patterson, Università del Maryland: Eco-regional planning for sustainable tourism; the ecological footprint.

25 Novembre 2003, Prof. Luciano Boi, Ecole de haute etudes en sciences Sociales, Centre de mathématique, Paris, France: Rotture di simmetrie, auto-organizzazione del vivente e azione dinamica del tempo: elementi per un nuovo paradigma scientifico ed epistemologico della natura.

15 Settembre 2003, Prof. P. Barrett, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand: Global Change: past, present and future.

30 Maggio 2003, Prof. Robert G. Bryant, Department of chemistry University of Virginia: Nuclear magnetic relaxation spectroscopy.

29 Maggio 2003, Prof. Garland Marshall, Washinghton University in Sant Louis: Shedding Light on Transduction by G-Protein Coupled Receptors (GPCRs): A Multidisciplinary Approach.

23 Maggio 2003, Prof. Edward Rosenberg, Dipartimento di Chimica dell'Università del Montana (USA): Electrochemical and Chemical Reductions of Electron Deficient Benzoheterocycle Triosmium Complexes.

16 Aprile 2003, Prof. Weston Thatcher Borden, Associate Editor, JACS Department of Chemistry. University of Washington, Seattle, USA: Interplay of Theory and Experiment in Understanding Substituent Effects on the Cope Rearrangement and on Bishomoaromaticity.

11 Aprile 2003, Prof. Jean-Claude Tabet, del Dipartimento di Chimica Biologica Organica e Strutturale dell'Università Pierre et Marie Curie di Parigi: Electrospray and MALDI: New Challenges in Chemistry and Biochemistry for Mass Spectrometry.

2 Febbraio 2003, Dott. Trista Patterson, University of Maryland: Linking cultural heritage and natural capital. A case study of central planning for the tourism sector in Siena.

27 Giugno 2002, Dott. Trista Patterson, University of Maryland: Ecoagriculture and rural tourism; strategies to support wild biodiversity and rural communities.

29 Aprile 2002, Dr. Andres Cozar Cabanas (Universidad de Cadiz, Spagna): Physical and Biological modelling in aquatic ecosystems.

4 Aprile 2002, Enrique del Aceibo Ibanez (Università del Salvador Buenos Aires): South cone and antarticica: representation about the enviromental problems among young people from the city of Buenos Aires.

14 Gennaio 2002, Prof.ssa Graciela Canziani (Department of Matematical Ecology, Università Nazionale del Centro della  Provincia di Buenos Aires – Argentina): Matematical  Modelling in Wetland studies.

9 Marzo 2001, Prof. Ewald Niehuis (Univ. Munster GE): Secondary Ions Mass Spectroscopy (SIMS); application to Chemical and Environmental problems.

23 Gennaio 2001, Dr. Trista Patterson (Univ. Mariland USA): Natural capital and sustainable development.

7 dicembre 2000, Prof. Corrado Maria Daclon: AREE PROTETTE La situazione italiana nel panorama internazionale. Attualità e problematiche di gestione Prospettive future.

21 Settembre 2000, Dott. Shigehiko Hayashi (Nagoya Univ. JAPAN and Beckman Inst., Univ. of Illinois, USA): An ab initio QM/MM Study on Proton Pump Mechanism of Bacteriorhodopsin.

4 Ottobre 2000, Prof. Klaus Moebius (Univ. Berlino): High field, high frequency EPR: why is a so powerful tool in protein research?

23 Novembre 1999, Dott. Werner Nau (Univ. Basel, Switzerland): Fluorescent Azoalkanes for Exploring Reaction Mechanisms and Practical Applications.

University Cooperation

• University Cooperation Officially Formalized

• Active University Cooperation

In the PhD Program of Chemical Science international level scientific cooperation are particularly valorised and oriented to widening and collaboration on the PhD research ambits, more than Students and Doctors mobility. A list of
University Cooperation Officially Formalized and
Active University Cooperation follows:

University Cooperation officially formalized:

• Wessex Institute of Technology (WIT) - Southampton, UK, Directed by Professor Carlos A. Brebbia.
  Convention terms.
  

• The IMAR - Institute of Marine Research
  Department of Zoology
  Faculty of Sciences and Technology
  University of Coimbra
  Convention terms

- University Cooperation under formalization:

The following proposals of agreement were approved by the Academic Staff of the PhD School in Chemical Sciences on august the 22nd, 2006 and by the Council of the Department of Chemical and Biosystems Sciences on September the 1st, 2006. The official agreement terms will be available on-line as soon as possible.

• Institute for Pharmaceutics and Analytical Chemistry Section for Physical Chemistry Danish University of Pharmaceutical sciences, Copenhagen, Denmark. Contact: Prof. Soren Nors Nielsen.

• Graduate School in Chemistry at Emory (GSCE) Emory University, Atlanta, USA. Contact: Prof. Preetha Ram. The agreement of the PhD School in Chemical Sciences will be formalized according to the academic agreement between the University of Siena and Emory University. In the last years the parties collaborated to the organization of a Summer School in Chemistry (Chemistry for Life and Environment), held in Siena. The partnership is also characterized by a reciprocal student and lecturer mobility.

Active University Cooperation:

Prof. William Antholine - National Biomedical ESR Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA - Wantholi@post.its.mcw.edu

Prof. Carlos Borrego - UAVR Universidad de Aveiro
Portugal - Dep. de Ambiente e Ordenamento - borrego@ua.pt

Prof. Robert G. Bryant - University of Virginia, Dept. of Chemistry - USA - rgb4g@virginia.edu

Prof. Mark T. Brown - Dept.of Environmental Engineering Sciences, University of Florida, USA

Prof. Graciela Canziani - Universitad Nacional del Centro, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas - Tandil Argentina - canziani@exa.unicen.edu.ar

Prof. Roberto Cao - Laboratory of Bioinorganic Chemistry
Havana University 10400 Havana, Cuba - Cao@karin.fmq.uh.edu.cu

Prof. Robert Costanza - Gund Institute of Ecological Economics, University of Vermont - USA

Prof. Herman Daly - School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland - USA

Prof. Patrick Denney - International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering Delft, the Netherlands - den@ihe.nl

Prof. Wojciech Froncisz - Department of Biophysics, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Polland - Froncisz@mol.uj.edu.pl

Prof. José Angel Gálvez - Departamento de Biología Universidad de Cádiz - España - joseangel.galvez@uca.es

Prof. Andrew P. Gutierrez - Ecosystem Sciences, ESPM 151 Hilgard Hall - University of California Berkeley - USA

Prof. Tom Hallam - Institute of Environmental Modelling - University of Tennessee - USA

Prof. James S. Hyde - Director Biophysics Research Institute, Medical College of Wisconsis, Milwaukee, USA - Jshyde@mcw.edu

Prof. T.L. James - Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California - S. Francisco - USA - james@picasso.ucsf.edu

Prof. Michael Jones - Trinity College Dublin - Botany Dept. - Ireland - mike.jones@tcd.ie

Prof. Sven E. Jorgensen - The Royal Danish School of Pharmacy - Copenhagen Denmark - sej@dfh.dk

Dr. Christian Leipert - International Institute of Environment and Society, Berlin Science Center, Berlin, Germany

Prof. Wolfgang Lubitz - Max-Volmer-Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie und Biochemie,
Technische Universität Berlin, D-10623, Berlin, Germany - Lubitz@struktur.chem.tu-berlin.de

Prof. Frank Kansiime - Makerere University - Institute of environment and natural resources -
fkansiime@muienr.mak.ac.ug

Prof. Henryk Kozlowski - Faculty of Chemistry
University of Wroclaw, Poland
henrykoz@wchuwr.chem.uni.wroc.pl

Prof. Genoveva de Mahieu - Universidad del Salvador -Argentina - uds-inve@salvador.edu.ar

Prof. João Frederico C. A. Meyer - UNICAMP
Universidad de Campinas - Brasil. - joni@ime.unicamp.br

Prof. Klaus Moebius - Institute of
Experimental Physics, Free University Berlin, D-14195, Berlin, Germany -
moebius@physik.fu-berlin.de

Pierre Mutzenhardt e Daniel Canet - Laboratoire de Métodologie RMN Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy, Francia -
Pierre.Mutzenhardt@rmn.uhp-nancy.fr

Prof. Werner M. Nau - Univ. Basel Switzerland - Werner.Nau@unibas.ch

Prof. Vesna Noethig-Laslo - Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance "Rudjer Boškovic" Institute Bijenicka c.54 10002 Zagrb, CROATIA - laslo@faust.irb.hr

Prof. Charles Perrings - Environment Department
University of York - cap8@york.ac.uk

Prof. Ilya Prigogine - Universitée libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Prof. Mike A. Robb - King's College London (UK) - mike.robb@kcl.ac.uk

Dr. Wojciech Rypniewski; Dr. Wolfram Meyer - KlauckeEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL - Germany)

Prof. Antonio Sanchez-Amat - Department of Genetics and Microbiology - University of Murcia, Spain - Antonio@fcu.um.es

Prof. Jacques Silva - Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande do Sul - Brasil - jaqx@mat.ufrgs.br

Prof. J.L. Usò - Universitat Jaume I Campus Peyneta Roja Department of Mathematics, Spain - jluso@arrakis.es

Prof. Rafael Vazquez-Duhalt - Institute of Biotechnology UNAM,
Cuernavaca, Morelos, 62250 Mexico
Vazqduh@ibt.unam.mx

Prof. Keith S. Wilson - York University (UK)

European Syncrhotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)

Emory University, Atlanta - USA

Kenya institute for public policy research and analysis (KIPPRA)
Dr. Moses Ikiara
mikiara@kippra.or.ke

Ministry of water, land and environment planning and quality assurance Dept. - Dr. Sam Bikangaga sbikangaga@mwle.go.ug

Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL)

University of Dortmund, Dept. of Chemistry, Germany

School of Pure and Applied Chemistry, College of Cardiff, University of Wales

Prof. Holger Kantz - Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresda, Germany

Department of Water Environment and Transport. Chalmers University, Goteborg, Sweden

Prof. Roland Lindh - Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Lund, Sweden

Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT, Boston (U.S.A.)

Prof. Irving R. Epstein, Brandeis University, Department of Chemistry and Center for Complex Systems, MS 015, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454-9110, USA

PhD Mathis Wackernagel, Global Footprint Network, Oakland, California, USA

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