Marco
Di Giovannantonio
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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 4548 8137 (office), +39 06 4548 8132 (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
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).
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