Luca Capaldo was born in 1991 in Milan, Italy. He studied chemistry at the University of Pavia and obtained his M.Sc. in 2015 (advisor: Prof. M. Fagnoni) with a dissertation on “Chemistry for technologies: LEDs and organic superconductors” after a visiting period as an Erasmus Trainee in the group of Prof. Luisa De Cola (ISIS, Strasbourg).
In the same year, Luca started his Ph.D. in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (advisor: Prof. M. Fagnoni) at the University of Pavia, during which he spent a visiting period in the group of Prof. Tehshik P. Yoon at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Luca defended his thesis on “Novel Approaches for Ecosustainable Synthesis” (highest honors) in February 2019.
After a postdoc with Prof. Davide Ravelli at the same University, during which he develop electrophotocatalytic methodologies for cross-dehydrogenative couplings, he joined the group of Prof. Timothy Noël as Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow (Individual Felloship). During this time, he worked on the development of novel photocatalytic approaches in batch and flow via Hydrogen-Atom Transfer (HAT) and Halogen-Atom Transfer (XAT).
In late 2023, he started his independent career at the University of Parma, where he founded the SynCat Lab. His research focuses on the synthesis of fine chemicals via enabling technologies, including photocatalysis, electrochemistry, mechanochemistry and flow chemistry.
He is also Associate Editor for the Journal of Flow Chemistry.
