Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials

Adresa: 17. listopadu 12, 771 46 Olomouc, Czech Republic

Education:

2004
Ph. D.: Physical (Organic) Chemistry
Institutions: Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz (Germany) and The Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy (Germany).

2000
Master in Pharmaceutical Sciences
Institutions: The Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Kakuma-machi 920-1192 Kanazawa, Japan, and The Institute of Molecular Science (IMS), Okazaki, Japan.

1997
Dottore in Chimica Industriale (Master in Industrial Chemistry)
Institutions: The University of Milan, Italy.

Research area:

Excellent knowledge on organic/inorganic synthesis, manipulation under strict anaerobic conditions (Schlenk technique, glove-box) of metallorganic and biological molecules. I master the tools for the purification of organic, metallorganic, and biological compounds (HPLC, gel-chromatography, size exclusion, electrophoresis, gel focusing).

He is very proficient on Quantum Chemical Calculations (AM1, PM3, PM6, ZINDO/1, ZINDO/S) for both closed (R) and open-shell (U) molecule, with or without CI (configuration interaction), and in molecular mechanics (MMFF94), Monte Carlo and DFT methods.

Spectroscopic Techniques

Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR, Models: Varian, Bruker, Jeol) operating at X and Q-band (9-33GHz) from cryogenic to room temperature with Oxford System or with continuous flow N₂ cryostat. High/Field/High-Frequency EPR (Grenoble, CNRS)
Superconducting Quantum Interface Device SQUID (Quantum Design, MPMS-5)
CD-MCD (Jasco J 500C)
UV-Vis/nIR (HP, Jasco) under aerobic/anaerobic conditions
Stopped-flow UV-Vis spectrophotometer (Otsuka-Denshi RA)
Fluorecensce spectrophotometer (Perkin Elmer)
FT-IR (Perkin Elmer)
Resonance Raman/Raman
Atomic Absorption
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR model Bruker AMX 250 MHz, Avance 300 MHz)
FD-MS, MALDI-Tof (BioRad) applied to biomolecule and organometallic compounds
SEM, AFM

Honors and memberships

1996 Honorary Diploma from the Ministry of the Italian Defense
1998 Monbusho Individual Grant from the Ministry of Education, Sport and Culture of Japan
2003 Young Scientist Award, from the European Material Research Society (EMRS 20th Anniversary)
2009 FP7-People, Marie Curie, Intra European Fellowship (N. 235237)

Member of Norwegian Chemical Society (NCS)
Member of Norwegian Biochemical Society (NBS)
Member of Nordic EPR Society (NES)
Member of American Chemical Society (ACS)

IMPORTANT PUBLICATIONS

A) 10 best in last 8 years

U. Schlickum, R. Decker, F. Klappenberger, G. Zoppellaro, S. Klyatskaya, M. Ruben,I.Silanes, A. Arnau, K. Kern, H. Brune, and J. V. Barth (2007). Metal-organic honeycomb nanomesh with tunable cavity size.
Nano Lett. 12, 3813-3817. IF₂₀₁₀=12.219

R. Decker, U. Schlickum, F. Klappenberger, G. Zoppellaro, S. Klyatskaya, M. Ruben, J. V. Barth and H. Brune (2008). Using metal-organic templates to steer the growth of Fe and Co nanocluster.
Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 243102 (1-3). IF₂₀₁₀=3.820

G. Zoppellaro, E. Harbitz, R. Kaur, A. A. Ensign, K. L. Bren and K. K. Anderson (2008). Modulation of the Ligand-Field Anisotropy in a Series of Ferric Low Spin Cytochrome c Mutants derived from Pseudomonas aeruginosa c-551 and Nitrosomonas Europaea c-552. An NMR and EPR study.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 15348-15360. IF₂₀₁₀=9.023

S. Stepanow, N. Lin, D. Payer, U. Schlickum, F. Klappenberger, G. Zoppellaro, M. Ruben, H. Brune, J. V. Barth, and K. Kern (2007). Surface assisted assembly of 2D metal organic networks that exhibit unusual three-fold coordination symmetry. Angew.
Chem. Int. Ed. 46, 710-713. IF₂₀₁₀=12.730

M. Filibian, P. Carretta, M. C. Mozzati, P. Ghigna, G. Zoppellaro, M. Ruben (2008). Strong electronic correlations in Li xZnPc organic metals.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 11760 (1-4) IF₂₀₁₀=7.622

U. Schlickum, R. Decker, F. Klappenberger, G. Zoppellaro, S. Klyatskaya, W. Auwärter, S. Neppl, K. Kern, H. Brune, M. Ruben, and J. V. Barth. (2008). Chiral kagomé lattice from simple ditopic molecular bricks.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 11778-11782. IF₂₀₁₀=9.023

S. Klyatskaya, F. Klappenberger, U. Schlickum, D. Kühne, M. Marschall, J. Reichert, R. Decker, G. Zoppellaro, H. Brune, J. V. Barth, M. Ruben (2011). Surface-Confined Self-Assembly of Di-Carbonitrile Polyphenyls.
Adv. Func. Mat. 21, 1230-1240. (+ Journal Inside Cover) IF₂₀₁₀=8.490

L. B. Bjørnstad, G. Zoppellaro, A. B. Tomter, P. Ø Falnes, K. K. Andersson (2011). Spectroscopic and magnetic Studies of wild-type and mutant forms of the FeII and 2-oxoglutarate dependent dioxygenase ALKBH4.
Biochem. J. 434, 391-398. IF₂₀₁₀=5.016

E. Monzani, L. Casella, G. Zoppellaro, M. Gullotti, R. Pagliarin, R.P. Bonomo, G. Tabbi, C. Nardin, L. (1998). Synthetic models for biological trinuclear copper clusters. Trinuclear and binuclear complexes derived from an octadentate tetraamine-tetrabenzimidazole ligand.
Inorg. Chim. Acta 282, 180-192. IF₂₀₁₀=1.899

F. Branzoli, P. Carretta, M. Filibian, G. Zoppellaro, M. J. Graf, J. R. Galan-Mascaros, O. Fuhr, S. Brink, M. Ruben (2009). Spin Dynamics in the Negatively Charged Terbium (III) bis–Phthalocyaninato Complex.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 4387-4396. IF₂₀₁₀=9.023

B) 5 most cited

S. Stepanow, N. Lin, D. Payer, U. Schlickum, F. Klappenberger, G. Zoppellaro, M. Ruben, H. Brune, J. V. Barth, and K. Kern (2007). Surface assisted assembly of 2D metal organic networks that exhibit unusual three-fold coordination symmetry.
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 46, 710-713. IF₂₀₁₀=12.730, Times cited: 69

Dr. rer. nat. Giorgio Zoppellaro, Ph.D.