dr. Barbara Milani   CURRENT POSITION Assistant Professor University of Trieste Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche Phone: (+39)040-558 3956 E-mail: milaniba@units.it

CURRICULUM VITAE (updated March 2012)

Barbara Milani was born in 1965; she received the Master degree in Chemistry, cum laude, in 1989 at the University of Trieste (Italy). In 1994 she obtained the PhD in Chemical Sciences at the University of Trieste under the supervision of Prof. Giovanni Mestroni. She spent several months at the ETH in Zürich doing research activity in the group of Prof. Giambattista Consiglio.
In 1998 she became Assistant Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Faculty of Science of University of Trieste. In 2010 she got the Accreditation for Advanced Research in Catalunya (Spain).

She regularly teaches at students of Chemistry, both at Bachelor and Master level. At Bachelor level she teaches the Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry (5^th semester); at the Master level she teaches Homogeneous Catalysis (2^nd semester). During her Academic Career she taught Laboratory of General Chemistry (students of Chemistry, bachelor, 1^st semester), General and Fundamental Chemistry (students of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Bachelor, 1^st semester).
She regularly acts as supervisor for Bachelor and Master students working in the research labs for preparing the graduation thesis. She is supervisor of PhD students and Post-docs.
She has been appointed as Visiting Professor at ENSIACET (Toulouse, France) for 1 month. She taught at University Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona (Spain) inside the framework of ERASMUS exchange Teaching Staff Mobility.
She is the coordinator of the ERASMUS exchange for the area of Chemistry of the Faculty of Science.
She is the representative of University of Trieste in the National Interuniversity Consortium of Chemical Reactivity and Catalysis (CIRCC).
She is responsible for the 500 MHz NMR Varian spectrometer that was installed at the Department of Chemical Sciences on March 2008, and she gives the training for the use of the spectrometer to the users of the Department.
She participated as external examiner in some PhD thesis discussions at University of Amsterdam (NL), of Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona (ES), of Strasbourg (F), of Sassari (I), of Venezia (I).

Her main research interest is related to the study of coordination and organometallic chemistry of late transition metals (in particular ruthenium, palladium and cobalt) with polydentate ligands and to the evaluation of their catalytic behavior for polymerization reactions, such as co- and terpolymerization of carbon monoxide with alkenes, homopolymerization of acrylates, copolymerization of terminal alkenes with polar monomers. Particular attention has been addressed to the factors affecting the stability of the catalyst and the control of the stereochemistry of the synthesized macromolecules.
She has been the scientist in charge of the following research grants:

She successfully collaborates, and collaborated in the past, with several Italian and European Professors, some of them are mentioned below:

In the period 2007-2009 she was a member of the Advisory Board of European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, and she currently is a member of the Advisory Board of Dalton Transactions and of International Symposium on Homogeneous Catalysis (ISHC).
She was the Co-editor of Helvetica Chimica Acta, 2006, 89 (8): special issue dedicated to Prof.Giambattista Consiglio;
Dalton Transactions themed issue on "Metal-catalysed polymerisation" issue 41, 2009.

Publications results disseminations
Dr. Milani (H index 20) is co-author of 59 publications (including 2 chapter books), 7 patents. She presented the results of her research activity at National and International Conferences as invited, keynote and session lecturer, as well as to other Universities and Industries (Shell, DSM). She participated at many conferences also presenting the results as poster contributions.
The list of publications is reported below.

PUBLICATIONS