The UB awards an honorary doctorate to Roberta Sessoli, a pioneer in the research on molecular magnetism

Roberta Sessoli.
Roberta Sessoli.
News | Institutional
(01/06/2023)
On Tuesday, 6 June at 12:00 noon, the University of Barcelona will confer an honorary doctorate to the researcher Roberta Sessoli, professor of General and Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Florence. The sponsor of the ceremony will be Albert Escuer, professor at the Department of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry of the Faculty of Chemistry  and member of the Institute of Nanosciences and Nanotechnology (IN2UB )​​​​​​​ of the UB. The event can be followed online via​​ UBtv.


 
Roberta Sessoli.
Roberta Sessoli.
News | Institutional
01/06/2023
On Tuesday, 6 June at 12:00 noon, the University of Barcelona will confer an honorary doctorate to the researcher Roberta Sessoli, professor of General and Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Florence. The sponsor of the ceremony will be Albert Escuer, professor at the Department of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry of the Faculty of Chemistry  and member of the Institute of Nanosciences and Nanotechnology (IN2UB )​​​​​​​ of the UB. The event can be followed online via​​ UBtv.


 

Professor Roberta Sessoli is a pioneer in the research on single-molecule magnets, molecules that behave like magnets with potential applications in different fields of nanotechnology. Sessoli, who works at the intersection between chemistry and physics, has focused her research on the application of magnetic molecules in quantum computing, specifically on how to improve quantum coherence times at reasonable temperatures for real applications.
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The repercussion of her work has been extraordinary: she has published more than 400 articles in first-level scientific journals and her work has more than 50,000 citations. This impact translates into many awards given by the main European chemical societies such as the Italian Society of Chemistry, the Society of Chemistry in France, the Royal Society of Chemistry (United Kingdom), the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry and the International Union of Pure Applied Chemistry, the global society that groups national chemical societies and she received, in 2015, the Distinguished Woman in Chemistry award.

Moreover, the fact that she worked in a multidisciplinary field has led her to receive awards in the field of physics, such as the Agilent Technologies Europhysics Prize, the Lecoq de Boisbaudran Prize —awarded by the European Rare-Earth Society— or the Beller Lectureship of the American Physical Society.
 

Roberta Sessoli (Florence, 1963) obtained her PhD in chemistry in the field of low-dimensional magnetic materials in 1992 under the direction of Professor Dante Gatteschi at the University of Florence. In 2000 she became a full professor at this institution, where she has been a professor since 2012.

She is currently a member of, among others, the Academia Europeae, the American Chemical Society, the German Academy of Natural Sciences Leopoldina, and the Royal Society of Chemistry of the United Kingdom.