Elena Selli is full Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Milan. She graduated in Chemistry cum laude in 1977 at the University of Pisa and at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. In 1978-1981 she was a PhD student of the Scuola Normale, for one year (1978) working at the Institut für Physikalische Chemie of the Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany. Then she became ricercatore universitario confermato (research assistant) of Physical Chemistry at the Scuola Normale Superiore (1981-1983) and at the University of Milan (1983-1998), and associate professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Milano (1998-2010). She has a long experience in teaching courses of Physical Chemistry for the Bachelor degrees in Chemistry; she also teaches Photochemistry to Master students. She is a member of the Board of the Doctorate School in Chemical Science and Technology. She is also a member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Nanostructured Materials and Interfaces (C.I.Ma.I.Na.) and responsible for its Photocatalysis research line, local delegate of the European Chemistry Thematic Network, and responsible for the Chemical Seminars. For many years, she has been local coordinator for the Erasmus program for Chemistry. She has been in the Board of the International Conference of Photochemical Conversion and Storage of Solar Energy (2008-2014) and she presently is a member of the Scientific International Committees of the European Meeting on Solar Chemistry and Photocatalysis: Environmental Applications and of the International Conference on Semiconductor Photochemistry. She has been President of the Italian Photochemistry Group (2012-2014), Italian section of the European Photochemistry Association. She is member of the American Chemical Society and of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI), in the Physical Chemistry Division (in the Board, as Vice-president). In 2012-2014 she has also been the coordinator of the Photochemistry Interdivisional Group of the SCI and still is in its board.She has been involved in several coordinated activities, e.g. PRIN 2002, PRIN 2005, PRIN 2009, COST 540 Action, FIRB. She has been and presently is responsible for research projects financed by Cariplo Foundation and Regione Lombardia. She is very active as reviewer for the American Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry and for Elsevier. She has been reviewer of several international research projects. In particular, in 2012 she was Rapporteur of the “Regenerative produced fuels by light driven water splitting” of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. For many years involved in studies on the kinetic aspects of photoinduced processes, in the last decades her interests have been mainly focused on the mechanistic aspects of photocatalysis on semiconductors for environmental and energy applications, and in particular on the effects of surface modification on the photocatalytic reaction paths and in the development of sensitive and efficient photocatalysts for solar energy conversion processes, such as hydrogen production from water. She authored or co-authored more than 150 papers and presented more than 180 communications (also invited) at international and national scientific meetings. Her h-index is 33 (WoS).
