Vito Lippolis. He graduated in Chemistry with honours in 1991 at the University of Pisa, Italy, and in the same year gained a diploma in chemistry at the ‘‘Scuola Normale Superiore’’ of Pisa. In 2000 he received his PhD degree from the University of Nottingham, UK, under the supervision of Professor Martin Schröder and the J.J. Turner Prize for PhD Thesis Excellence. In 2001 was appointed to the chair of Inorganic Chemistry at the Faculty of Science of the University of Cagliari, Italy, after having been Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at the same University. He has published about 350 publications on international peer-reviewed scientific journals and several book chapters.

He is Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of the Iranian Chemical Society (Taylor & Francis) and member of the Board for Molecules (MDPI, Inorganic Chemistry Section). He is also Member of the Advisory Board of the International Conference on Selenium and Tellurium Chemistry (ICCST) and he was Chairman of the Conference in 2019.

In 2023 he has co-edited the book “Chalcogen Chemistry, Fundamentals and Applications” published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK (SBN-13 ‏: ‎ 978-1839164224).

He has presented more than 170 communications to national and international conferences, several of them as invited speaker. He has been Visiting Professor at the Department of Anorganische Chemie of the Technische Universität Dortmund (Germany); at the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Universitatea Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca (Romania); at the Departamento de Quimica Inorganica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain); and at the Department of Material Science and Chemistry, of the Faculty of Systems Engineering of the Wakayama University (Japan).

His research interests at the moment mainly include: 1) Supramolecular chemistry and crystal engineering of Molecular Organic Frameworks (MOFs); 2) coordination chemistry of macrocyclic ligands and development of molecular sensors and ionophore/receptors for heavy metal ions and anions and fluorescent materials based on metallophilic interactions; 3) study of the interaction between chalcogen donor molecules and halogens and inter-halogens within the topics of halogen and chalcogen bonding.

At the University of Cagliari, he has been: Coordinator of the PhD Course in “Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche” (2006-2009); head of the “Dipartimento di Chimica Inorganica ed Analitica” (2006-2012); head of the “Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche” (2012-2015); member of The Administrative Council (2010-2012); member of The Academic Senate (2012-2015). In the period 2015 - 2021 he was Deputy Rector with mandate for the Scientific Campus of Monserrato (CA).