YURI GELATO
Postdoc
Yuri Gelato received his MSc cum laude in Chemistry from the University of Bologna (mentor: Prof. Pier Giorgio Cozzi) in 2022, and then his PhD cum laude from the University of Bari (mentor: Prof. Renzo Luisi) in 2026. During his doctoral studies, he focused on synthetic methodology development, building expertise in electrophilic nitrogen transfer, photocatalysis, and flow chemistry. In 2025, he was a visiting PhD student in the group of Prof. Mark Levin at the University of Chicago, gaining experience in the field of skeletal editing. In October 2026, he joined the Farinola group as a postdoc, returning to where his research journey started in 2020, when he was a bachelor’s student. He currently works on the development of novel synthetic transformations, focusing on infrared-mediated processes and silk fibroin catalysis.
