Federico Polo was born in Asolo (Treviso) in 1976. He obtained the Laurea in Industrial Chemistry in 2003 and the PhD in Chemical Sciences in 2007 at the University of Padova under the supervision of Prof. Flavio Maran. His research area focused on molecular electrochemistry and electron transfer mechanism. During his PhD, he spent 9 months at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, to characterize self-assembled monolayers and biomimetic systems by scanning electrochemical microscopy. Afterwards, he spent several research stays abroad as postdoctoral fellow and visiting scholar. His scientific interests are related to:

• Molecular electrochemistry and electron transfer mechanisms;
• Electrogenerated chemiluminescence (ECL) studies and applications in (bio-)sensing, and imaging;
• Chemical sensing and biosensing technology and related applications for health, food and environment;
• Surface chemistry and synthesis, characterization and application of 2D and 3D self-assembled systems (SAMs), metal/metal-oxide nanoparticles and metal complexes for (bio-)sensing, and catalysis;
• Light-emitting diodes (e.g. OLED) and related technologies for energetics and sustainability;
• Design and development of experimental setup for electrochemical studies and related applications.

Prof. Polo is leading the Molecular Electrochemistry Laboratory at the Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems. For more information, please visit our website: www.polo-meclab.com

ORCID:http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4638-396X
Researcher ID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/J-3060-2014
LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/pub/federico-polo/6/998/bb9
Publons: publons.com/a/1307507/
 
CURRICULUM VITAE

Education
 
2007, March 20
Doctorate Degree in Chemical Sciences, University of Padova
Thesis: “Electron Transfer to and through Peptides and Characterization of Related Self-Assembled Monolayers”
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Flavio Maran
 
2003, July 17
Laurea in Industrial Chemistry, University of Padova
Grade: 107/110
Thesis: “Effect of the Distance on the Electron Transfer through Donor-Oligopeptides-Acceptor Systems”
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Flavio Maran
 
Appointments
 
2021, December 21 – present 
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems, Ca' Foscari Univeristy of Venice, Venice, ITALY

2018, December 21 – 2021, December 20 
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems, Ca' Foscari Univeristy of Venice, Venice, ITALY

2015, September 16 – 2018, December 20 
Senior Researcher and Group Leader, Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology Division, IRCCS Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano – National Cancer Institute, Aviano, ITALY
 
2011, February 1 – 2015, September 15
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemical Sciences (Molecular Electrochemistry and Nanosystems group)
University of Padova, ITALY
 
2009, March 2 – 2011, January 31
Postdoctoral Fellow, Physikalisches Institut (De Cola’s Research Group)
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, GERMANY

2008, January 28 – December 14
Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry (Applied Sensors Laboratory)
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Achievements
 
2021, July 9. Tenure successfully completed

2020, Habilitation as Associate Professor in
• Physical Chemistry, CHIM02 (2020, October 27 – 2029, October 27)
• Chemical Fundamentals of Technologies, CHIM07 (2020, November 4 – 2029, November 4)
• Analytical Chemistry, CHIM01 (2020, November 12 – 2029, November 12)

Visiting Scholar
 
2023, May 1 - December 31
Visiting Scholar, Institut de physique et de chimie des matériaux de Strasbourg, IPCMS, (Matteo Mauro’s Research Group)
Strasbourg, FRANCE

2018, October 1-19
Visiting Scientist, Department of Chemistry (Masson’s Research Group)
University of Montreal, QC, CANADA
 
2016, September 1-16
Visiting Scientist, Department of Chemistry (Masson’s Research Group)
University of Montreal, QC, CANADA
 
2012, July 23 – August 31
Visiting Scholar, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (Rusling’s Research Group)
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, U. S. A.
 
2007, August 3 – September 23
Visiting Scientist, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (Whitesides Research Group)
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
 
2005, March 21 – October 31
Visiting Student, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry (Applied Sensors Laboratory)
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
 
Additional Professional Experience
 
2023, May – present
Board member of the International PhD Program in Sustainable Chemistry, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

2022, November – present
Board member of the International PhD Program in Chemistry, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and University of Trieste.

2021, September – present
Coordinator for the Minor courses “Science and Senses” at the Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

2020, December – present
Coordinator of the Erasmus Committee for Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

2020, May – present
Member of the Teaching Committee for MSc in Chemistry and Sustainable Technologies at the Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

2008, December 22 – 2012, December 31
Consulting Scientist, Radiation Shield Technologies (RST),Miami, FL, USA.
Consulting activities for RST, world leading company in the research, design, and production of personal protection systems for ionizing and nuclear radiation

Grants/Awards

• 2023. “Engineering Functional Metal Nanocluster-Protein Architectures for Bio(sensing and catalytic) applications (ProNano4Bio)”, funded € 200.000,00 by the Ministry of University and Research (MUR) through the Projects of Relevant National Interest (PRIN) 2022, under the agreement 2022RSXC9X. Prof Federico Polo is the PI of one of the four operative units coordinated by Prof. Sara Bonacchi (University of Padova). End date: 2025.

• 2023. Visiting Scholarship (€ 3,000.00) awarded by the Institute de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg, ICPMS.

• 2021. “Therapeutic and Illegal Drugs’ Electroluminescent Detection” (TIDE), funded € 50.000,00 by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in October 2021 through its own initiative call Supporting Principal Investigators (SPIN), aiming attracting and funding outstanding talents.

• 2020. “Outstanding research activity” award 2019, funded 2,000.00 € by the Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. October 14, 2020.

• 2019. Project “Nanoarchitecture-based biosensors for therapeutic drug monitoring in oncology: toward precision and personalized medicine”, start-up grant funded (20 k€) by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. End date: June 2021.

• 2017. Project (QU17MO06) “Instrument for rapid screening of breast cancer” in the framework of the international collaboration between Québec and Italy, funded (~20 k€) by the Ministry of Foreign Affair (Italy) and Ministère des Relations Internationales et de la Francophonie (Québec). Dr. Federico Polo and Prof. Masson (Université de Montréal) are the principal investigators of the collaborative project. End date: May 31, 2019.

• 2017. “Nano Diagnostic and Automated Therapeutic Tools for Oncology” (NADIA Tools), funded € 829,366.01 by the Region Friuli-Venezia-Giulia within the call POR-FESR 2014-2020 - Smart Health. Within the partners’ consortium, Dr Federico Polo is the group leader of the operative unit working at the National Cancer Institute (€ 400,255.00, 20% of which is co-funded by CRO). End date: April 5, 2019.

• 2015. Finalist group leader candidate at the BioMedX Bootcamp “Nanomaterial-Based Biosensors for Near-Patient Testing”, sponsored by Roche Diagnostics and held in Heidelberg on June 11-15, 2015. Only 17 candidates (4 group leaders, 13 researchers) were selected among over 600 applicants.

• 2013. Recipient of the Senior Research Fellowship for the project entitled “Molecular Electrochemistry for Cancer Diagnostics” (€21.304/year), granted by the University of Padova in December 2013 through the call “Giovani Studiosi”. Project timeframe: January 1, 2014 – December 31, 2015.

• 2012. The postdoctoral fellowship (2012-2013) at the University of Padova was granted by AIRC (Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro) “5 per mille” under the grant agreement 12214 for the project entitled “Application of Advanced Nanotechnology in the Development of Innovative Cancer Diagnostics Tools”.

• 2011. The postdoctoral fellowship (2011-2012) at the University of Padova was granted by Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (M. I. U. R.) under the agreement of P.R.I.N. (Project of Relevant National Interest) 20098Z4M5E for the project entitled “Synthesis of Nanometer-Size Gold Particles and their Functionalization with Peptides for Biotechnological Applications”.

• 2009. The postdoctoral fellowship (2009-2010) at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster was sponsored through the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme under the grant agreement 212311 of the project entitled “Organic Nanomaterial for Electronics and Photonics (ONE-P)”.

• 2003. The Ph. D. fellowship was granted by Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (M. I. U. R.) under the agreement of P.R.I.N. (Project of Relevant National Interest) 2003035241 for the project entitled “Peptides-Controlled Charge Transfer in Biomimetic Systems”.

 
Main National and International Collaborations

• Italy
Dr. Fabio Rizzo,* Institute of Molecular Science and Technologies, ISTM, National Research Council.       * Currently at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
Prof. Flavio Maran, Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova.
Prof. Sabrina Antonello, Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova.
Prof. Sara Bonacchi, Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova.
Prof. Fernando Formaggio, Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova.
Prof. Alessandro Angelini, Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems, University Ca’ Foscari Venice.
Prof. Ilaria Palchetti, Department of Chemistry “Ugo Shiff”, University of Firenze.
Prof. Laura Fabris, Department of Applied Sciences and Technology, Politecnico di Torino.
Dr. Aline S. C. Fabricio, Istituto Oncologico Veneto (IOV) - IRCCS, PAdova
Prof. Rossella De Marco, University of Udine
Prof. Stefano Cinti, University of Naples - Federico II

• France
Prof. Matteo Mauro, Institut d’études avancées, Université de Strasbourg.
Prof. Neso Sojic, Institut des sciences moléculaires, Université de Bordeaux.

• Spain
Prof. Enrique Rodríguez Castellón, University of Malaga.

• Germany:
Dr. Vivek Pachauri, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH), Universität Aachen.
Prof. Dr. Sven Ingebrandt, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH), Universität Aachen.
Prof. Fabio La Mantia, Universität Bremen.
Dr. Claudia Bizzarri, Institut für Organische Chemie, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

• Sweden:
Prof. Alberto Vomiero, Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics, Luleå Tekniska Universitet.

• USA:
Prof. James F. Rusling, University of Connecticut, CT.

• Canada:
Prof. Jean-François Masson, Université de Montréal, QC.

• Russia:
Prof. Ivan Guryanov, Institute of Chemistry, St. Petersburg State University

 
Memberships

• Società Chimica Italiana (SCI), member ID 20261, 2003 – present
• International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE), member ID 14573, 2014 – present
• Electrochemical Society (ECS), member ID 334198, 2015 – present
• BioMed X Alumni (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/BioMed-X-Alumni-4988894/about), 2015 – present
• American Ceramic Society (ACerS), member ID 2008181, 2020 – present
• European Centre for Living Technology (ECLT) at Ca’ Foscari University, 2020 – present

 
Scholarship
 
Peer Reviewed Journal Publications

h-index = 18, 1393 citations on Web of Science. Last update on November 12, 2023

h-index = 19, 1444 citations on Scopus. Last update on November 12, 2023

h-index = 20, 1681 citations on Google Scholar. Last update on November 12, 2023

Peer Reviewer
 
American Chemical Society: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Analytical Chemistry, ACS Sensors, ACS Pharmacology&Translational Science.
American Association for Clinical Chemistry: Clinical Chemistry.
Elsevier: Electrochimica Acta, Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, Sensors & Actuators B: Chemical.
Royal Society of Chemistry: Chemical Society Review, Analyst, Chemical Communications, New Journal of Chemistry, Dalton Transactions.
MDPI: Sensors, Biosensors.
Springer: Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry.
Wiley: Angewandte Chemie, Electroanalysis.