Irene Regeni studied chemistry at Trieste University (Italy) and obtained her master degree with Prof. Iengo on a joint project with Prof. Severin (EPFL, Lausanne). She did her PhD in Germany, at the TU Dortmund University, in the group of Prof. Guido Clever, for which she was awarded a “Kekule’ fellowship” from the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie and a Honorable Mention from the IUPAC-Solvay International Award for Young Chemists for the best PhD theses. The general focus of her PhD research was to implement the functionalities of commonly-known organic dyes into self-assembled Pd(II)-coordination cages to develop 3D nanoobjects interacting with visible light. In 2022, she joined the group of Prof. Bonnet at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry as a postdoctoral researcher. For this position, she was awarded two personal grants, a Walter Benjamin Program from the DFG (Deutsche Forschung Gemeinschaft) as well as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her current research focuses on developing new Ru(II)-polypyridyl peptide bioconjugates for photoactivated chemotherapy.

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