BATTISTUZZI Gianantonio

Gianantonio Battistuzzi graduated in Chemistry at the University of Modena in 1991. He earned his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1996 and became assistant professor of Inorganic Chemistry in 1999 at the University of Modena. Since 2001, he is associate professor of Inorganic Chemistry of the Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences of the Univesity of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Gianantonio Battistuzzi works in the field of Bioinorganic Chemistry and is mainly interested in the undestanding of the molecular determinants of the structural and functional properties of electron transfer (ET) metalloproteins (cytochromes c, blue-copper protiens and FeS protiens) and of redox metalloenzymes (heme peroxidases and copper oxidases). More recently, he started to study the behavior of native and mutated mitochondrial cytochromes c immobilized on inorganic surfaces, to explore the possibility of using them as costituents of protein-based nano-bio-sensors. The reasearch activity of Gianantonio Battistuzzi is based on different spectroscopic (UV-vis, NMR e MCD), voltammetric and spectroelectrochemical tecniques, supported by a computational calculations, applied to native and mutated ET proteins and redox enzymes. The reasearch group to which Gianantonio Battistuzzi belongs significantly contributed to the application of voltammetric techniques to the characterization of the redox properties of ET metalloproteins and introduced the use of spetroelectrochemical techniques to analyze the reduction themodynamics of redox metalloenzymes. Gianantonio Battistuzzi is co-author of about 100 scientific papers published on peer-reviewed high-impact factors scientific journals and of more than 65 communications (presented either orally or as posters) in national and international scientific meetings.