Professor Chiara Massera graduated in Chemistry with a specialization in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Parma, achieving the highest distinction (110/110 cum laude). From 1997 to 2000, she was a Ph.D. student in Chemical Sciences at the Department of Chemistry G.I.A.F. at the University of Parma. During this period, she completed a four-month research stay (March–June 1999) at the Université L. Pasteur in Strasbourg, working in organometallic synthesis under the supervision of Prof. Pierre Braunstein (https://lcc.chimie.unistra.fr/).
She obtained her Ph.D. on January 22, 2001, with a dissertation titled: "Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Transition Metal Selenido-Carbonyl Clusters". Her doctoral thesis was awarded Best Ph.D. Thesis in Inorganic Chemistry (2001) at the XXIX National Congress of Inorganic Chemistry of the Italian Chemical Society.
From October 2002 to March 2003, she received a DAAD (Deutscher Akademische Austausch Dienst) fellowship (http://www.daad.de/de/index.html) for a six-month research project at Philipps-Universität Marburg (Department of Chemistry), working with Prof. G. Frenking (http://www.uni-marburg.de/fb15/ag-frenking/). Her project focused on DFT (Density Functional Theory) analysis of chemical bonds in metal complexes of palladium, platinum, and nickel with ethene and ethyne.
Professor Chiara Massera is currently an Associate Professor at the Department SCVSA of the University of Parma. She is the author of over 150 scientific publications and a European patent. h-index: 36 (Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6701838414)
Scientific Conferences and Schools
6th FIGIPS Meeting in Inorganic Chemistry, Barcelona, Spain (July 15-20, 2001)
"Reactivity of [HMCo3(CO)12] (M = Fe or Ru) towards phosphine selenides. Synthesis and crystal structures of new selenido-carbonyl bimetallic clusters".
XL Congress of the Italian Crystallographic Association (AIC), Siena, Italy (September 19-22, 2011)
Keynote speech: "Diagnostic with Cavitands".
Workshop: "Past, Present, and Future of Crystallography@Politecnico di Milano", Milan, Italy (June 6-7, 2013)
Keynote speech: "Crystallography and Supramolecular Sensing".
ECM28 – 28th European Crystallographic Meeting, Warwick, UK (August 25-29, 2013)
Invited talk: "Solid-State Molecular Recognition for Supramolecular Sensing".
ECM29 – 29th European Crystallographic Meeting, Rovinj, Croatia (August 23-28, 2015)
Invited talk: "Tailoring Host-Guest Interactions for Sensing with Cavitands".
Organizational and Chair Roles at Crystallography Schools and Congresses
Scientific Committee Member and Organizer of the 2015 Crystallography School of the Italian Crystallographic Association (AIC) (Bologna, September 5-8, 2015) as a member of the AIC Educational Commission (2015-2017) http://escg2015.unisalento.it/
Chair at ECM30 – 30th European Crystallographic Meeting, Basel, Switzerland (August 28 – September 1, 2016)
MS34: "Molecular Recognition, Supramolecular Chemistry, and Crystal Engineering".
Promoter of the 2016 Crystallography School of the Italian Crystallographic Association (AIC) (Rimini, September 7-11, 2016) http://www.cristallografia.org/aicschool2016/eng/detail.asp?idn=1854
Promoter of the 2017 Crystallography School of the Italian Crystallographic Association (AIC) (Pavia, September 3-6, 2017) http://www.cristallografia.org/aicschool2017/eng/detail.asp?idn=2951
Chair at the 3rd Joint AIC-SILS Conference, Rome, Italy (June 25-28, 2018)
MS2 - Inorganic & Organic Functional Materials.
Scientific Committee Member (http://ecm31.ecanews.org/en/programme-committee.php) and Chair at ECM31 – 31st European Crystallography Meeting, Oviedo, Spain (August 22-27, 2018)
MS47: "How to Take Your Next Steps in Crystallography".
Invited talk: MS48 "Education in Crystallography". (https://ecm31.ecanews.org/en/microsymposia.php)
Promoter of the 2018 Crystallography School of the Italian Crystallographic Association (AIC) (Bari, August 29 – September 2, 2018).
Promoter and Lecturer at the 2019 Crystallography School of the Italian Crystallographic Association (AIC) (Naples, August 29 – September 3, 2019).
Promoter and Chair of the Scientific Committee of the 2020 Crystallography School of the Italian Crystallographic Association (AIC) (Parma, September 10-14, 2020).
Co-Chair of Microsymposium MS100 "Stimuli-Responsive Crystalline Materials" at the XXV IUCr Congress, Prague (August 22-30, 2021).
Member of the Organizing Committee of the XLIX National Crystallography Congress AIC2021, Parma (September 14-17, 2021).
Chair of Microsymposium MS9: "Crystallography, Scientific Communication, and Society". (https://scvsa.unipr.it/notizie/6-e-8-settembre-due-appuntamenti-su-cristallografia-comunicazione-e-societa)
Lecturer at ECS6 – European Crystallography School 6, Budapest (July 2021) and X-TechLab Training Session (November 21 – December 2, 2022). (https://ecs6.ecanews.org/)
Chair of Microsymposium MS46 "Reproducibility in Crystallography" at ECM33 – 33rd European Crystallography Meeting, Versailles (August 23-27, 2022). (https://ecm33.ecanews.org/www.ecm33.fr/mycrosymposia.html)
Keynote Speaker at ECM34 – 34th European Crystallography Meeting, Padua (August 26-30, 2024)
"Combining Mechanochemistry and Structural Analysis for the Design of Nanocrystalline Reticular Materials". (https://www.ecm34.org/general-schedule/plenary-keynote-speakers)
Co-Chair of Microsymposium M46 "Publishing Crystallography" at ECM35 – 35th European Crystallographic Meeting, Poznań (August 25-29, 2025). (https://ecm35.ecanews.org/microsymposia)
