PERSONAL INFORMATION

First Name: Marco

Family name: Di Giovannantonio

Nationality: Italian

Date of birth: January 15th, 1986

Place of birth: Tivoli (RM) - Italy

Civil status: Married, two daughters                                                    

Work address: Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Roma – Italy

Telephone: +39 06 4993 4137 (office), +39 06 4993 4132 (lab)

E-mail: marco.digiovannantonio@cnr.it

  ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8658-9183

CURRENT POSITIONS

• Since 2023 Senior Scientist at CNR-ISM, Rome, Italy

• Since 2023 Visiting Researcher at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST, Japan)

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

• 2020 – 2022 Scientist, CNR-ISM, Rome, Italy

• 2019 – 2020 Scientist, Empa, Dübendorf, Switzerland

• 2016 – 2019 Postdoctoral fellow, Empa, Dübendorf, Switzerland

EDUCATION

• 2011 – 2015 PhD in Physics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy

• 2009 – 2011 Master in Material Science and Technology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy

BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS

• 61 articles published in international peer reviewed journals (30 on journals with IF > 11).

• Average IF of all publications: > 10.

• Hirsch-index: 30; citations: >3050 (source: Scholar)

FUNDED PROJECTS

• ASTRAL (FIS 3 Consolidator grant) – My role: PI

Duration: 2026 – 2031 

Funded by the Ministry of University and Research (MUR, Italy)

• BILATERAL JOINT RESEARCH PROGRAM CNR-JSPS (Italy-Japan) – My role: PI

Duration: 2025 – 2026 

Funded by CNR

• SHORT TERM MOBILITY (Call 2024) – My role: PI

Duration: 3 weeks in 2024 

Funded by CNR

• ATYPICAL (PRIN 2022 National project) – My role: PI

Duration: 2023 – 2025 

Funded by the Ministry of University and Research (MUR, Italy)

• BILATERAL JOINT RESEARCH PROGRAM CNR-JSPS (Italy-Japan) – My role: PI

Duration: 2023 – 2024 

Funded by CNR

• SHORT TERM MOBILITY (Call 2023) – My role: PI

Duration: 3 weeks in 2023 

Funded by CNR

• SHORT TERM MOBILITY (Call 2020) – My role: PI

Duration: 3 weeks in 2022 

Funded by CNR

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

• On-Surface Synthesis Workshop (OSS26), June 2026, Ribadesella, Spain (https://oss26.dipc.org/invited-speakers).

• Public Lecture, August 2024, RIKEN, Saitama, Japan

• Public Lecture, August 2024, OIST, Okinawa, Japan

• 245th ECS meeting, May 2024, San Francisco, USA

• Department seminar, April 2023, OIST, Okinawa, Japan

• Lecture at the PhD course in Chemistry, June 2022, University of Bologna, Italy

• Department seminar, May 2022, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

• Opening ceremony of Academic Year, December 2021, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy

• Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, September 2015, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati – INFN, Italy

• SPLDS, May 2015, Pont-à-Mousson, France

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 

Supervision of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows

• 2024 – 2025 Supervision of Postdoctoral researcher (Óscar Jover Arrate) at CNR-ISM, Italy

• 2017 – 2022 Co-supervision of PhD student (Amogh Kinikar) from ETH Zürich, Switzerland

• 2018 Supervision of Master student (Nicolas Schnidrig) from Univ. of Bern, Switzerland

• 2015 Co-supervision of Master student (Nicola Rana) from Univ. of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy

Institutional responsibilities

• 2020-present Member and Responsible of committees for the selection of CNR-ISM research fellows

• 2026 Committee member in PhD defense of Alessandro Namar, University of Trieste, Italy

• 2026 Committee president in PhD defense of Paula Angulo Portugal, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain

• 2020 Committee member in PhD defense of Ana Sánchez Grande, University of Madrid, Spain

Reviewing activities

• 2022 Reviewer for the ETH Domain ORD program (Switzerland)

• 2021 Reviewer for the French National Research Agency

• Since 2017 Reviewer for the following Journals: Nature Chemistry, Nature Communications, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie, Scientific Reports, Nanoscale, and others.

Activity at synchrotron radiation facilities

• Since 2008 user at synchrotron radiation facilities (>20 beamtimes) to perform experiments with photoemission-related methods (XPS, NAP-XPS, ARPES, NEXAFS, XPD). 

• Facilities: SLS-PSI (Villigen, Switzerland), MAX IV (Lund, Sweden), Elettra (Trieste, Italy), Soleil (Paris, France), BessyII (Berlin, Germany).

MAIN PUBLICATIONS

• A. Kinikar, X. Xu, T. Onishi, A. Ortega-Guerrero, R. Widmer, N. Zema, C. Hogan, L. Camilli, L. Persichetti, C. A. Pignedoli, R. Fasel, A. Narita, M. Di Giovannantonio. 

On-surface synthesis of tailored organic platforms for single metal atoms. 

Nat. Commun., 16, 10597 (2025).

• F. Frezza, A. Sánchez‐Grande, S. Canola, A. Lamancová, P. Mutombo, Q. Chen, C. Wäckerlin, K.‐H. Ernst, M. Muntwiler, N. Zema, M. Di Giovannantonio, D. Nachtigallová, P. Jelínek. 

Controlling On‐Surface Photoactivity: The Impact of π‐Conjugation in Anhydride‐Functionalized Molecules on a Semiconductor Surface. 

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 63, e202405983 (2024).

• A. Kinikar, T. G. Englmann, M. Di Giovannantonio, N. Bassi, F. Xiang, S. Stolz, R. Widmer, G. Borin Barin, E. Turco, K. Eimre, N. Merino Díez, A. Ortega-Guerrero, X. Feng, O. Gröning, C. A. Pignedoli, R. Fasel, P. Ruffieux. 

Electronic decoupling and hole-doping of graphene nanoribbons on metal substrates by chloride intercalation. 

ACS Nano, 18, 16622–16631 (2024).

• M. Di Giovannantonio, Z. Qiu, C. A. Pignedoli, S. Asako, P. Ruffieux, K. Müllen, A. Narita, R. Fasel. 

On-surface cyclization of vinyl groups on poly-para-phenylene involving an unusual pentagon to hexagon transformation. 

Nat. Commun., 15, 1910 (2024).

• A. Kinikar, M. Di Giovannantonio, J. I. Urgel, K. Eimre, Z. Qiu, Y. Gu, E. Jin, A. Narita, X.-Y. Wang, K. Müllen, P. Ruffieux, C. Pignedoli, R. Fasel. 

On-surface polyarylene synthesis by cycloaromatization of isopropyl substituents. 

Nat. Synth., 1, 289 (2022).

• M. Di Giovannantonio, R. Fasel. 

On-surface synthesis and atomic scale characterization of unprotected indenofluorene polymers. 

J. Pol. Sci., 1-13 (2022).

• M. Di Giovannantonio, X. Yao, K. Eimre, J. I. Urgel, P. Ruffieux, C. A. Pignedoli, K. Müllen, R. Fasel, A. Narita. 

Large-Cavity Coronoids with Different Inner and Outer Edge Structures. 

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 12046–12050 (2020).

• S. Stolz, M. Di Giovannantonio, J. I. Urgel, Q. Sun, A. Kinikar, G. Borin Barin, M. Bommert, R. Fasel, R. Widmer. 

Reversible Dehalogenation in On‐Surface Aryl–Aryl Coupling. 

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 59, 14106-14110 (2020).

• M. Di Giovannantonio, K. Eimre, A. V. Yakutovich, Q. Chen, S. Mishra, J. I. Urgel, C. A. Pignedoli, P. Ruffieux, K. Müllen, A. Narita, R. Fasel. 

On-Surface Synthesis of Antiaromatic and Open-Shell Indeno[2,1-b]fluorene Polymers and Their Lateral Fusion into Porous Ribbons. 

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141, 12346-12354 (2019).

• M. Di Giovannantonio, O. Deniz, J. I. Urgel, R. Widmer, T. Dienel, S. Stolz, C. Sánchez-Sánchez, M. Muntwiler, T. Dumslaff, R. Berger, A. Narita, X. Feng, K. Müllen, P. Ruffieux, R. Fasel. 

On-Surface Growth Dynamics of Graphene Nanoribbons: The Role of Halogen Functionalization. 

ACS Nano, 12, 74–81 (2018).