Professional Affiliations

2026- Associate Editor, PhotoAggregate (Wiley)

2026- Deputy Editor, Solar Fuels (Future Vertex)

2026- International Union of Aggregate Science (IUAS)

2025- Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC)

Selected Awards and Distinctions

2026 2026 Rising Stars of Light − Finalist (Light: Science & Applications)

2024 Nanoscale Emerging Investigator (Royal Society of Chemistry)

2024 "Rita Levi Montalcini" program for young researchers (Italian Ministry of University and Research)

2023 ERC Starting Grant (EU’s Horizon Europe)

2022 European Young Chemists' Award − Finalist (European Chemical Society)

2021 Dream Chemistry Award − Top 5 (IChF Polish Academy of Sciences  and IOCB Czech Academy of Sciences)

2020 “Giacomo Ciamician Medal" (Italian Chemical Society)

2020 "Stanislao Cannizzaro International Prize for Chemistry and Chemical-Physics" (Accademia dei Lincei) 

2018 "Primo Levi Award" (Italian Chemical Society − Young Group)

2017 Award for the “Best PhD dissertation” (CINMPIS)

Selected Invited Presentations at International Conferences

2027 Nature Conference on Solar Fuels 2027 (April 2027, Wuhan, China)

Invited speaker

2027 Telluride meeting, “Structure, Dynamics and Reactivity in the Ordered Solid State” (May 2027, Telluride, Colorado, USA)

Invited speaker

2027 “Interactive, Intelligent, Innovative: Pushing the Limits of Artificial Molecule-Based Systems and Materials” 

7th ERC Grantees Conference 2027 (July 2027, Ischia, Italy)

Invited speaker

2026 4th Stoddart Molecular-cum-Supramolecular Science Symposium 2026 (October 2026; Hong Kong)

Invited speaker

2026 2nd International Conference on Bioinspired Interfacial Materials Science (October 2026; Suzhou, China)

Invited lecture

2026 8th International Conference on Nanoscience, Nanotechnology and Nanobiotechnology (Palermo, Italy)

Keynote lecture + Invited speaker

2026 ACS Fall 2026. Carbon-based nanomaterials: from fundamental insights to applications (Chicago, USA)

Invited speaker + session chair

2026 7th International Symposium on Aggregation-Induced Emission (AIE7) (08-2026, Pisa, Italy)

Invited speaker

2026 3rd International Workshop on Solar Fuel (12-04-2026, Wuhan, China)

Invited keynote speaker + session chair

2025 Supramolecular Chemistry Days for Young Researchers 2025 (11-06-2025, Salerno, Italy)

Invited keynote speaker

2024 Second Symposium for Young Chemists (SYNC) (25-06-2024, Rome, Italy)

Invited keynote speaker

2024 Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 2024 (04-06-2024, INFN Frascati, Italy)

Invited plenary speaker

2024 5th China-Italy Bilateral Symposium of Organic Chemistry (V-CISOC) (12-05-2024, Hangzhou, China)

Invited lecture

2024 International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC) (09-05-2024, Hangzhou, China)

Oral speakersession chair

2022 EuChemS Chemistry Congress (30-08-2022, Lisbon, Portugal)

Invited oral presentation

2022 Supramol 2022 (30-06-2022, Salerno, Italy)

Invited keynote lecture

2021 Dream Chemistry Award 2021 (06-12-2021, Prague, Czech Republic)

Invited oral presentation

2021 Awards and medals ceremony (25-06-2021, Italian Chemical Society, Rome, Italy)

Invited oral presentation

2020 Energy Frontiers Research Centers Meeting (16-11-2020, online, U.S. Department of Energy)

Invited oral presentation

2019 Merck Young Chemists Symposium, MYCS 2019 (XIX Edition, 26-11-2019, Rimini, Italy)

Invited oral presentation

2018 Towards a New Vision of Chemistry in Everyday Life and Technology (16-12-2017, CINMPIS XVII Edition, Cagliari, Italy)

Invited plenary speaker

Patents

1. • Arcudi, F.; Ðorđević, L.; B.; Stupp. S.; Weiss, E.; Selective Photocatalytic Reduction of Acetylene to Ethylene, US20240208885A1 (US12540107B2)

   • Stone, A.; Arcudi, F.; Ðorđević, L.; B.; Weiss, E.;  Hupp, J.; Stupp. S.; Selective photocatalytic reduction of alkynes to alkenes powered by a cobalt-porphyrin metal-organic frameworks, Selective photocatalytic reduction of alkynes to alkenes powered by a cobalt-porphyrin metal-organic frameworks, US20240208884A1

   • Arcudi, F.; Ðorđević, L.; Nagasing, B.; Stupp. S.; Weiss, E.; Quantum Dot Sensitized Photoreduction of Carbon Dioxide, US20240132362A1; WO2022183107A1

   • Holson, E. B.; Wagner, F. F.; Weïwer, M.; Scolnick, E. M.; Palmer, M.; Đorđević, L.; Lewis, M.; Pan, J. Q.; Zhang, Y.-L.; Xu, Q. Dopamine D2 Receptor Ligands, 2020, US 10,633,336 B2

   • Holson, E.; Wagner, F. F.; Weiwer, M.; Scolnick, E. M.; Palmer, M.; Đorđević, L.; Lewis, M.; Pan, J. Q.; Zhang, Y.-L.; Xu, Q.; Dopamine D2 Receptor Ligands, 2016, WO2016100940

Teaching

• Instructor for "Laboratorio Chimica 2" (Industrial Chemistry) and "Chimica Organica" (Biology of Human and Environmental health) (2026) 

• Instructor for "Laboratorio Chimica 2" (Chemistry), "Laboratorio Chimica 2" (Industrial Chemistry), and "Chimica Organica" (Pharmacy) (2025) 

• Instructor for "Chimica Organica" (Pharmacy), "Advanced Laboratory For The Preparation And Characterization Of Materials" (Materials Science and Technology), and  "Laboratorio Chimica 2" (Industrial Chemistry) (2024)

• Instructor for "Laboratorio Chimica Applicata" (Sciences and Culture of Gastronomy) and "Laboratorio Chimica 2" (Industrial Chemistry) (2023)

• Co-instructor (with Prof. Stupp) “Chemical Synthesis of Materials” (MSE 336, 2021)

• Faculty of Pharmacy (University of Trieste), Master in “Chimica e Technologie Farmaceutiche”):

 - Teaching assistant “Organic Chemistry” (Prof. Bonifazi, 2015)

 - Teaching assistant “Organic Chemistry” (Prof. Prato, 2012)

 - Teaching assistant “Advanced Organic Chemistry” (Prof. Prato, 2012)

Selected Memberships

European Photochemistry Association (EPA)

Italian Chemical Society (SCI)

American Chemical Society (ACS)

Catalysis Club Chicago (former member)

Selected Reviewing Activity

• Grants and funding schemes: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA-PF); Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Polish National Science Center; etc.

• American Chemical Society: Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society, ACS Catalysis, ACS Nano, ACS Materials Letters, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Journal of Organic Chemistry, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, ACS Omega, etc.

• Royal Society of Chemistry: Chemical Society Reviews, Chemical Communications, Chemical Science, Nanoscale, New Journal of Chemistry, RSC Sustainability, Dalton Transactions, RSC Advances, etc.

• Wiley: Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie, Small, Advanced Optical Materials, Chemistry European Journal, European Journal of Organic Chemistry, Particle & Particle Systems Characterization, Chem. Asian J., ChemistrySelect, etc.

• Taylor & Francis: Supramolecular Chemistry

• Springer Nature: Nature Communications, Light Science & Applications, etc.