Giulia FIORANI

Position
Associate Professor
Roles
Rector's delegate for Knowledge Transfer
Telephone
041 234 8486 / 041 234 8576 / Lab. 8676
E-mail
giulia.fiorani@unive.it
Academic discipline
Organic Chemistry [CHEM-05/A]
Website
https://www.unive.it/web/en/19197/people/giulia.fiorani(personal record)
Office
Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dsmn
Where: Campus scientifico via Torino
Room: office 221 (Epsilon building, 2nd floor) / research lab 201 (Epsilon building, 2nd floor)
Research Institute
Research Institute for Green and Blue Growth
Safety Role
Preposto di Laboratorio
Responsabile dell’Attività di Didattica e Ricerca in Laboratorio (RDRL)

Office hours

To arrange an appointment please contact me at giulia.fiorani@unive.it

Teaching activity current year

CHIMICA [CTR70]
Laurea

CHIMICA E TECNOLOGIE SOSTENIBILI [CMR7]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

CHIMICA E TECNOLOGIE SOSTENIBILI [CT7]
Laurea

CHIMICA E TECNOLOGIE SOSTENIBILI [CTR7]
Laurea

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF BIO AND NANOMATERIALS [CM14]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY [R359]
Corso di Dottorato (D.M.226/2021)

Teaching activity previous years

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF BIO AND NANOMATERIALS [CM14]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

CHIMICA E TECNOLOGIE SOSTENIBILI [CMR7]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

CHIMICA E TECNOLOGIE SOSTENIBILI [CT7]
Laurea

CHIMICA E TECNOLOGIE SOSTENIBILI [CTR7]
Laurea

SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY [R359]
Corso di Dottorato (D.M.226/2021)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF BIO AND NANOMATERIALS [CM14]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

CHIMICA E TECNOLOGIE SOSTENIBILI [CM7]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

CHIMICA E TECNOLOGIE SOSTENIBILI [CT7]
Laurea

SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY [R359]
Corso di Dottorato (D.M.226/2021)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF BIO AND NANOMATERIALS [CM12]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

CHIMICA E TECNOLOGIE SOSTENIBILI [CM7]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

CHIMICA E TECNOLOGIE SOSTENIBILI [CT7]
Laurea

CHIMICA SOSTENIBILE [R259]
Corso di Dottorato (D.M.45)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF BIO AND NANOMATERIALS [CM12]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

CHIMICA E TECNOLOGIE SOSTENIBILI [CM7]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

CHIMICA E TECNOLOGIE SOSTENIBILI [CT7]
Laurea

SCIENZA E TECNOLOGIA DEI BIO E NANOMATERIALI [R256]
Corso di Dottorato (D.M.45)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF BIO AND NANOMATERIALS [CM12]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

CHIMICA E TECNOLOGIE SOSTENIBILI [CT7]
Laurea

SCIENZA E TECNOLOGIA DEI BIO E NANOMATERIALI [R256]
Corso di Dottorato (D.M.45)

Activities and research skills

Academic discipline
Chimica organica [CHEM-05/A]
Settore Scientifico Disciplinare (SSD) affine
CHIMICA DELL'AMBIENTE E DEI BENI CULTURALI [CHIM/12]
Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
Internazionale: Europa
Known languages
Italiano (scritto: madrelingua parlato: madrelingua)
Inglese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
Spagnolo (scritto: intermedio parlato: avanzato)
Participation as referees of national and international research projects
Referee per proposte progettuali nell'ambito di Horizon 2020 (2016-2020).
Main departmental research areas and fields
Area: Biomedicina Linea: Diagnosi
Area: Biomedicina Linea: Terapia
Area: Chimica Fisica e Materiali Linea: Green Chemistry
A novel integrated cyclic peptide-based platform for precision delivery of nucleic acid-based therapeutics (ALLIANCE)
Funding body:
National Center for Gene Therapy and Drugs based on RNA - Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR) - Ministero dell'università e della ricerca e Unione Europea (NextGenerationEU)
Type:
Altri programmi ministeriali
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2024 Length in months: 12
Other members of the research group:
Alessandro ANGELINI
Fabrizio FABRIS
Cristian FREGONESE
Achille GIACOMETTI
Sara LINCIANO
Sara LINCIANO
Silvia MULTARI
Marco Salvatore NOBILE
Federico POLO
Flavio ROMANO
Zhanna ROMANYUK
Matilde SALVADORETTI
Alessandro SCARSO
Marta SIMEONI
FISH-MeeTing: sustainable recovery and valorisation of fish wastes processing
Funding body:
MAECI
Type:
Altri programmi ministeriali
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2018 Length in months: 24
Other members of the research group:
Alvise BENEDETTI
Alvise PEROSA
Maurizio SELVA
Sviluppo di un bioprocesso innovativo e biocompatibile per la produzione sostenibile di nanosistemi di diagnostica molecolare a base peptidica in Veneto
Funding body:
European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) – Veneto Regional Programme 2021/2027
Type:
Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2023 Length in months: 12
Other members of the research group:
Alessandro ANGELINI
Achille GIACOMETTI
Federico POLO
Alessandro SCARSO

Publication highlights

Fiorani, Giulia; Bragato, Nicola; Annatelli, Mattia; Bernardi, Alessandro; Bortoluzzi, Marco; Calmanti, Roberto; Perosa, Alvise; Selva, Maurizio 2‐formyl‐5‐(hydroxymethyl)furan (HMF) derivatives as active complexing agent for CO2 insertion reaction in EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, vol. 28, pp. e202500119 (ISSN 1434-193X)
DOI - URL correlato 2025, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5092968


Della Monica, Francesco; Brandolese, Arianna; Di Carmine, Graziano; Selva, Maurizio; Fiorani, Giulia; Izzo, Lorella En Route Toward Sustainable Polycarbonates Via Large Cyclic Carbonates in CHEMSUSCHEM, vol. 18 (ISSN 1864-5631)
DOI - URL correlato 2025, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5094690


Schuurmans, Jasper; Masson, Tom; Zondag, Stefan; Pilon, Simone; Bragato, Nicola; Claros, Miguel; den Hartog, Tim; Sastre Calabuig, Fransesc; van den Ham, Jonathan; Buskens, Pascal; Fiorani, Giulia; Noel, Timothy Light-assisted carbon dioxide reduction in an automated photoreactor system coupled to carbonylation chemistry in CHEMICAL SCIENCE, vol. 15, pp. 19842-19850 (ISSN 2041-6520)
DOI - URL correlato 2024, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5083041


Campalani, Carlotta; Bragato, Nicola; Morandini, Andrea; Selva, Maurizio; Fiorani, Giulia; Perosa, Alvise Carbon Dots as Green Photocatalysts for Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization of Methacrylates in CATALYSIS TODAY, vol. 418, pp. 114039 (ISSN 0920-5861)
DOI - URL correlato 2023, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5014802


Bragato N.; Perosa A.; Selva M.; Fiorani G. Dihydroxybenzene-derived ILs as Halide-Free, Single-component Organocatalysts for CO2 Insertion Reactions in CHEMCATCHEM, vol. 15, pp. e202201373 (ISSN 1867-3899)
DOI - URL correlato 2023, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5014804


List of publications

Curriculum vitae

Giulia Fiorani
Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry
Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems
Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Short Bio

Giulia Fiorani was born in Rome in 1983. She holds a BSc (2004, cum laude) and MSc (2006, cum laude) in Chemical Sciences from the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, where she also obtained her PhD in Chemical Sciences in 2010. Her doctoral research focused on the synthesis of ionic liquids and their application as solvents in C–C bond-forming reactions, under the supervision of Prof. Valeria Conte.

During her PhD, she completed international research stays at the University of Nottingham (UK, Jan–Apr 2008, Prof. Simon Woodward) and as a Marie Curie Early Stage Fellow at the QUILL Research Centre, Queen’s University Belfast (UK, Apr–Aug 2008, Profs. Kenneth R. Seddon and Christopher R. Strauss).

From 2010 to 2012, she held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Padua (Italy), working on the synthesis and applications of hybrid polyoxometalates (with Prof. Mauro Carraro, Prof. Marcella Bonchio, and Dr. Alberto Figoli). In 2012–2013, she joined the Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice for a postdoc focused on the synthesis and application of linear organic carbonates (Profs. Maurizio Selva and Alvise Benedetti).

In 2014, she was awarded a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (2014–2016), conducting a project on the synthesis of structurally complex biomass-derived cyclic organic carbonates at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ, Spain), in the group of Prof. Arjan W. Kleij.

Between 2016 and 2017, she worked in the field of polymer chemistry and catalytic polymerization in the group of Prof. Charlotte K. Williams, first at Imperial College London and then at the University of Oxford.

From 2017 to 2020, she was a Fixed-Term Researcher in Organic Chemistry at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Since November 2020, she has been Associate Professor at the same institution. As of August 2024, she also serves as the Rector’s Delegate for Knowledge Transfer.

Research Interests

Her research focuses on the development of synthetic methodologies and catalytic processes for the preparation of novel functional molecules and materials from renewable resources.

Publications and Impact

  • 39 publications in international peer-reviewed journals
  • 8 book chapters
  • h-index: 16
  • 2,700 citations (as of May 2025)

Honors and Editorial Roles

  • 2017: Junior Research Award “Organic Chemistry for the Environment, Energy and Nanosciences” – Italian Chemical Society (SCI), Organic Chemistry Division
  • Since 2022: Associate Editor, RSC Advances (Royal Society of Chemistry)
  • Member of the Early Career Advisory Board, ChemSusChem (Wiley-VCH)