Giulio Ragazzon is a full professor in chemistry, group leader at the Institut de Science et d’Ingeniérie Supramoléculaires (ISIS) of the University of Strasbourg, France.
His group investigates non-equilibrium processes occurring at the molecular scale, with >40 articles published in internationally recognized venues and overall >40 invited lectures delivered at major international forums. As a result of his contributions, he received prestigious awards and grants: including the gold medal at the European Young Chemist Award, and being a finalist of the Dream Chemistry Award, a worldwide competition rewarding young chemists who dream of solving fundamental problems with bold ideas. In 2021, he received the ERC Starting grant.
In the context of the local excellence initiative on complex systems chemistry of the University of Strasbourg (ITI-Syschem, in which he sits in the executive committee), he is overseeing the "Entrepreneurship & Innovation" program, which connects fundamental chemistry with industrial and societal needs, training students for technology-transfer. He is member of the early-career advisory board of the journals ChemPhysChem and of Chem. Eur. J..
Before starting his independent career, he studied chemistry at the University of Trieste, with a thesis on photoactive metal complexes. After moving to the University of Bologna for the Master's degree as a member of the university excellence college (Collegio Superiore), he obtained his PhD in 2017 from the same institution, working on light-driven molecular machines under the supervision of Prof. Credi. During his postdoc, he worked on non-equilibrium self-assembly at the University of Padova with Prof. Prins, showing how the principles underlying molecular machines can be exploited to realize thermodynamically unfavored self-assembly processes. He then joined the University of Trieste as an assistant professor, under the mentorship of Prof. Prato.