{"id":1145,"date":"2021-09-17T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/?page_id=1145"},"modified":"2021-09-17T12:24:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T00:24:00","slug":"dr-luca-bondi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/dr-luca-bondi\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Luca Bond\u00ec"},"content":{"rendered":"

MBA <\/strong>(October 2021-present): MIB Trieste School of Management, Trieste, Italy.<\/p>\n

Previous position <\/strong>(June 2021 \u2013 September 2021): <\/strong>Research associate with Professor Sally Brooker (Otago, New Zealand) and Professor Federico Totti (Florence, Italy) on \u2018Towards Predictable Tuning of Spin Crossover\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n

PhD <\/strong>(2017-2021): co-tutelled program between the University of Otago, New Zealand, with Professor Sally Brooker and University of Florence, Italy, with Professor Federico Totti, \u2018Towards Predictable Tuning of Spin Crossover\u2019. <\/em><\/p>\n

MSc <\/strong>(<\/strong>2015-2017, Chemical Sciences): University of Florence, MSc thesis with Professor Federico Totti, \u2018DFT Characterization of Vanadyl Phthalocyanine on Graphene<\/em>\u2019, awarded with distinction.<\/p>\n

BSc <\/strong>(<\/strong>2012-2015, Applied Chemistry): University of Rome Tor Vergata, BSc thesis with Professor Pietro Tagliatesta, \u2018Optimizing and Characterizing Buffer Layers in Polymeric Solar Cells\u2019<\/em>, awarded with distinction.<\/p>\n

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Luca Bond\u00ec at the (left) Chemistry Department, University of Otago, (right) St. Claire beach, Dunedin. <\/em><\/p>\n

I came to New Zealand in 2017, after completing my Master’s at the University of Florence (Italy), to pursue PhD studies with Prof. Sally Brooker on a University of Otago PhD scholarship. I was fascinated by the idea of visiting places so far from my country, in terms of nature and people\u2019s attitudes. I was conquered by New Zealand, in the way it opened my mind and caste me into a very international environment. During these past four years I came across a lot of opportunities and I met people from worldwide countries. I got chances to talk to them, to experience their life perspective and, through putting myself into \u2018somebody else shoes\u2019, I grew incredibly.<\/p>\n

The University of Otago provides a very dynamic environment, full of inputs from very well qualified professors from domestic and international universities. As well, the chemistry department spreads an atmosphere of being a very safe place, where scientific ideas are very welcome, finding fertile land to blossom.<\/p>\n

I am really grateful to Sally and Federico for their guidance in this path. This academic career of mine has supplied me with an unusual path which I consider priceless: my PhD studies were shaped from both experimental and computational chemical perspectives. From Sally I learned a wide range of hands-on skills, from multi-step organic synthesis to metal complexations and crystal growth. Additionally, a very large set of characterisation techniques (SCXRD, NMR, IR, UV-vis, ESI-MS, CHN). From my summers in Florence with Federico I learnt several IT skills, big data analysis and basic language in Linux.<\/p>\n

On top of all of that, I learnt how to write reports and manuscripts suitable for publication. Quickly, it became clear in my mind how steep is the walk to pack a refined draft where each tiny detail is accurately, concisely and clearly described. As well, I often presented my results to large audiences in international conferences. During these four years, I was accepted to nine international conferences and I had the opportunity to attend to six of them (because of the COVID19 pandemic the others were virtual), giving invited talks at a few of them. We published a very good amount of work in strong international peer-reviewed journals, including Inorg. Chem., Chem. Asian J., Chem. Eur. J.<\/em> and J. Mat. Chem. C.<\/em> and we currently have a paper under revision for Inorg. Chem. Front.<\/em> and another paper in an advanced stage of preparation.<\/p>\n

Brookers Bunch is an extremely friendly workspace, each of the members of our crew was always available to help at the first glance. Finally, a special acknowledge to the MacDiarmid Institute that opened up several doors during these past years and invested a large number of resources for the professional growth of us, young researchers.<\/p>\n

I would have never had the same experience here in Italy, and this is for me a reason for eternal gratitude to this wonderful country, New Zealand!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MBA (October 2021-present): MIB Trieste School of Management, Trieste, Italy. Previous position (June 2021 \u2013 September 2021): Research associate with Professor Sally Brooker (Otago, New Zealand) and Professor Federico Totti (Florence, Italy) on \u2018Towards Predictable Tuning of Spin Crossover\u2019. PhD […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18270,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1145","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}