Piero Macchi (b. 1970) obtained a Master of Science in Chemistry (1994) and a PhD in Chemical Science (1999) from the University of Milan. He has been post doc research assistant at the University of Aarhus (1999-2000) with a grant of the DANSYNK (Danish Institute for research with Synchrotron). He returned to the University of Milan as researcher and aggregate professor (2002-2008). He moved to the University of Bern as group leader of the Chemical Crystallography group (2009-2019) where he also obtained the Habilitation in Chemical Crystallography (2009) and became associate professor. He later move to the Polytechnic of Milan (2018–) as an associate professor. Since 2022, he is full professor of fundamentals of chemistry for technologies.
Piero Macchi has been chair of the special interest group on charge, spin and momentum density of the European Crystallographic Association (2011-2014) and of the commission on charge spin and momentum density of the IUCr (2014-2017). He has organized two Gordon Conferences on Electron Distribution and Chemical Bonding (2010, 2013), several schools and workshops and co-organized the 5th European Charge Density Meeting (2008), the European Crystallographic Meeting (2016), the first edition of the Erice course on quantum crystallography (2018), as well as many national meetings.
His research interests encompasses several areas of crystallography, physical chemistry and inorganic chemistry: chemical bonding analysis in metal complexes and clusters, opto-electronic properties of organic and metal-organic materials, chemical bonding and reactions in solids at high pressure, spintronics materials and quantum computing.
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