Marinella Mazzanti

Mazzanti is the recipient of the 2021 ACS Albert Cotton award in synthetic inorganic chemistry. She was 2019 Randolph T. Major Lecturer at the University of Connecticut, 2016 Rubin Colloquium Technion Lecturer at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, and 2009 Glenn T. Seaborg Memorial Lecturer at University of California, Berkeley. In 1994 she was awarded with the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship.

Mazzanti has been a member of editorial board of Helvetica Chimica Acta (since 2017), editorial board of Dalton Transaction (since 2017), and advisory board of Inorganic Chemistry (2011-2014).

In 2014 she joined the EPFL faculty as senior scientist, before becoming Adjunct Professor at EPFL and head of the Group of Coordination Chemistry in 2016.

After obtaining her "Diploma di Maturità Classica"(Bachelor) from the Liceo Virgilio in Empoli in 1978, Mazzanti studied inorganic chemistry at the University of Pisa and made her master's degree ("Laurea in Chimica") in 1985. She then joined Carlo Floriani at the University of Lausanne as a doctoral student to work low-valent vanadium chemistry. In 1990, she graduated with a PhD (with honors) for her thesis on "Coordination Chemistry of Vanadium (III) and Vanadium (II)." From 1989 to 1991, she was a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Lausanne. She spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley working, before joining Alan L. Balch at University of California, Davis for one year to do research on transition metal chemistry. She received a Marie-Curie fellowship to work on metalloporphyrin chemistry at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in Grenoble with Jean-Claude Marchon. From 1996 to 2014, she held position first as research scientist and then as a research director at the same institution while working on f-block elements chemistry.