Email: oscar.francesconi@unifi.it
Website: https://sites.google.com/unifi.it/glycomore/
Biographical sketch
Oscar Francesconi received his PhD in 2010 from the Università degli Studi di Firenze (UNIFI) in Firenze (Italy), working on synthetic receptors for carbohydrates. After a period as a visiting researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas in Madrid, he worked at UNIFI as a postdoctoral researcher and then as an Assistant Professor in Organic Chemistry. He was appointed Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff” at UNIFI in 2023. His interests are in supramolecular chemistry and physical-organic chemistry, with particular focus on the biomimetic recognition of carbohydrates.
