Grazia Maria Lucia MESSINA

Grazia M.L. Messina graduated in Chemistry from the University of Catania in 2003. In 2009 she obtained the title of PhD in Chemical Sciences discussing a thesis entitled: "A Study of molecular self-organizing processes at surfaces". 

She continued his research activity as a post-doc researcher and later as RTD-A in the framework of a competitive project "FIRB-Future in Research" entitled: "Peptide-based Conformational Switches: Design, Synthesis, and Applications" of which she was the winner and responsible for the research unit in Catania. In 2020 she was hired as RTD-B (Physical Chemistry) researcher at the Department of Chemical Sciences of the University of Catania. From 2023 she is an associate professor of Physical Chemistry 

Carries out teaching activities, tutorials and co-tutorial for the development of experimental degree theses for students of the Bachelor’s degree course in Chemistry and for the master’s degree course in Chemical Sciences 

Interacts and collaborates with various research groups abroad (University of Münster, ETH Zürich, University of Ankara, University of Paris-Diderot, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Linköping University) and in Italy (University of Padua, Messina, Rome Tor Vergata, Ortopedic Institutes Rizzoli-Bologna, Italian Institutes of Technology-IIT Naples).

The scientific activity carried out is of an experimental nature in the field of Chemistry of surfaces and interfaces aimed at the chemical-physical study of surface nanostructure and the study of self-processesthe organization of molecules at the interface and is reported in numerous collaborative scientific papers published in international scientific journals.

UPDATE 03 April, 2025 

• ORCID: 0000-0001-6144-4914
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