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Marco Bonizzoni, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Distinguished Teaching Fellow Director of Graduate Recruitment Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry The University of Alabama marco.bonizzoni@ua.edu Full CV (PDF); Publication list |
Marco Bonizzoni was born and raised in Pavia, a small town in northern Italy. During his undergraduate years at the University of Pavia, Dr. Bonizzoni worked in Prof. Luigi Fabbrizzi's lab as an undergraduate researcher and spent a term as an exchange student in Prof. Franz Peter Schmidtchen's lab at the TUM (Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany).
He received a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Pavia (2003) with a dissertation on the metal binding properties of open-chain and cyclic ligands containing a piperazine moiety. He then joined Prof. Fabbrizzi's group to pursue a Ph.D., where he was introduced to the field of chemical sensing, concentrating on the design and characterization of chemical sensors for anion recognition. He obtained his doctorate in January 2007, with a dissertation titled Anion recognition through metal-ligand and hydrogen bonding interactions.
After finishing his graduate studies, Dr. Bonizzoni moved to the USA to join Prof. Eric V. Anslyn's group at The University of Texas at Austin as a postdoctoral fellow in February 2007. In Austin Dr. Bonizzoni's research was focused on the application of pattern-based recognition to the construction of chemical sensors.
Dr. Bonizzoni joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry at The University of Alabama as an Assistant Professor in August 2010, with the intention of exploring the fields of chemical sensing, supramolecular chemistry of non-covalent interactions, and the assembly of supramolecular structures with emergent properties. Dr. Bonizzoni received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2017.
He received a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Pavia (2003) with a dissertation on the metal binding properties of open-chain and cyclic ligands containing a piperazine moiety. He then joined Prof. Fabbrizzi's group to pursue a Ph.D., where he was introduced to the field of chemical sensing, concentrating on the design and characterization of chemical sensors for anion recognition. He obtained his doctorate in January 2007, with a dissertation titled Anion recognition through metal-ligand and hydrogen bonding interactions.
After finishing his graduate studies, Dr. Bonizzoni moved to the USA to join Prof. Eric V. Anslyn's group at The University of Texas at Austin as a postdoctoral fellow in February 2007. In Austin Dr. Bonizzoni's research was focused on the application of pattern-based recognition to the construction of chemical sensors.
Dr. Bonizzoni joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry at The University of Alabama as an Assistant Professor in August 2010, with the intention of exploring the fields of chemical sensing, supramolecular chemistry of non-covalent interactions, and the assembly of supramolecular structures with emergent properties. Dr. Bonizzoni received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2017.
Awards and Recognition
- Selected as a Distinguished Teaching Fellow by the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Alabama for his innovative contributions to the use of technology in teaching (2017-2020).
- Selected to present at the 2016 Young Academic Investigator Symposium organized by the Organic Division of the American Chemical Society, to be held at the 2016 Fall National Meeting of the Society in Philadelphia.
- Selected as one of the 2016 Emerging Investigators by the Editorial Board of the Journal of Materials Chemistry B.
- Invited to present at the 2015 Physical Organic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference held in Holderness, NH in June 2015.
Representative Publications
- Michael H. Ihde, Cara F. Pridmore, Marco Bonizzoni. Pattern-based recognition systems: Overcoming the problem of mixtures. Analytical Chemistry 2020, 92(24), 16213-16220. DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c04062
- Joshua Tropp, Michael H. Ihde, Abagail K. Williams, Nicholas J. White, Naresh Eedugurala, Noel C. Bell, Jason D. Azoulay, Marco Bonizzoni. A sensor array for the discrimination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons using conjugated polymers and the inner filter effect. Chemical Science, 2019, 10, 10247 - 10255. DOI: 10.1039/C9SC03405F.
- Xiaoli Liang, Marco Bonizzoni. Boronic acid-modified poly(amidoamine) dendrimers as sugar-sensing materials in water. J. Mater. Chem. B, 2016, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/C5TB02530C. This article was selected for the Emerging Investigators 2016 themed collection
- Yuanli Liu, Marco Bonizzoni. A supramolecular sensing array for qualitative and quantitative analysis of organophosphates in water. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136(40), 14223-14229. DOI: 10.1021/ja507905r.
- Ashley M. Jolly, Marco Bonizzoni. Intermolecular forces driving encapsulation of small molecules by PAMAM dendrimers in water. Macromolecules, 2014, 47(18), 6281-6288. DOI: 10.1021/ma5014868.
