Alessandro Sorrenti received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 2008 with a dissertation entitled “Transfer of chirality from molecules to complex systems”. Then he moved to the Universitat de Barcelona where he joined the group of Prof. J. M. Ribó (2010-2011) thanks to a fellowship for Young Foreign Researchers funded by the Spanish Government. In Barcelona, he also worked as postdoctoral researcher in the groups of Prof. R. M. Ortuño at the UAB (2010-2011), and of Prof. D. Amabilino (2013-2014) at the CSIC Institute of Materials Science. In 2014, he moved to the Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires of Strasbourg (Dr. T. Hermans’ group), where he won a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship for the research project ASSEMZYME. In April 2017, he joined the group of Dr. Puigmartí-Luis (part of the deMello group) at ETH-Zürich as Senior Research Assistant (Oberassistent). With the appointment of Dr. Puigmartí-Luis as an ICREA Professor, in September 2020 he relocated with the ChemInFlow group to Universitat de Barcelona (UB).
In March 2021, Alessandro was appointed as Profesor Lector (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Organic Chemistry at UB.
Alessandro’s research experience is at the interface between supramolecular, organic, physical-organic chemistry and colloid chemistry. Namely, his interests have ranged from the investigation of chirality in amphiphile and porphyrin assemblies, to the study of kinetically controlled self-assembly and pathway complexity in aqueous media, and of enzyme mediated dissipative (chemical fuel-driven) supramolecular polymerization. Currently, his research interest is focussed on studying supramolecular polymers and self-assembled materials under non-equilibrium conditions achieved within of microfluidic environments.
