Silvia Marchesan
University of Trieste
Biography
Silvia holds a PhD in Chemistry from The University of Edinburgh (2008) and she holds professional qualifications as a Pharmaceutical Chemist (2007, UK) and a Pharmacist (2006, Italy). She was honorary researcher at University College London (2005–2007), Academy of Finland Fellow at the University of Helsinki (2008– 2010), and CRSS Fellow jointly at Monash University and Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organization (Melbourne, 2010– 2012). In 2013 she returned to the University of Trieste (Italy) where her scientific adventure had started with her M.Sc. degree (honours). There, in 2015 she became Assistant Professor and she established her lab thanks to a starting grant. She was promoted to Associate Professor (2018), and then to Full Professor (2025). Between 2021– 2022 (6 months) she was Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge (UK).
Silvia enjoys multidisciplinary research enabled by the central role of chemistry. She is active at the interface between supramolecular chemistry and nanotechnology, and between biological chemistry and materials science. Her interests in bio-organic and bio-orthogonal chemistry date back to her doctoral studies, continuing through the years. She has served these communities as a member of the RSC CBBG Interest Group Committee (2022-2025).
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, ChemComm
Advisory board, Materials Advances
Advisory board, Journal of Materials Chemistry B