Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences (specialization: Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling) magna cum laude,
University of Perugia, IT (2023); Advisors: Prof. Paola Belanzoni, Dr. Leonardo Belpassi.
M.S. in Chemical Sciences – European Master in Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling,
University of Perugia, IT (2019); Advisors: Prof. Paola Belanzoni, Dr. Leonardo Belpassi.
B.S. in Chemistry, University of Perugia, IT (2017); Advisors: Prof. Paola Belanzoni, Dr. Leonardo Belpassi.
Professional Affiliations
Member of the Theoretical and Computational Chemistry division of the Italian Chemical Society.
Member of the Inorganic Chemistry division of the Italian Chemical Society.
Areas of Interest
First-principles electronic structure methods
Computational materials design
Homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis
Heavy and super-heavy elements chemistry
Experience
2023-Present: Postdoctoral researcher, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
2019-2023: Ph.D. Researcher in Theoretical Chemistry, University of Perugia (IT)
2019: Internship at Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, Toulouse (FR); Supervisor: Prof. Trond Saue
2018-2022: Research fellow, Italian National Research Council (CNR), Perugia (IT)
D. Sorbelli, Y. Wu, Z. Bao, G. Galli Mesomeric control of the optoelectronic properties of polymerized small molecule acceptors J. Mater. Chem. A 12, 25837-25849 (2024).
Y. Wu, Y. Yuan, D. Sorbelli, C. Cheng, L. Michalek, H.-W. Cheng, V. Jindal, S. Zhang, G. LeCroy, E. Gomez, S. Milner, A. Salleo, G. Galli, J. Asbury, M. Toney, and Z. Bao Tuning polymer-backbone coplanarity and conformational order to achieve high-performance printed all-polymer solar cells Nat. Commun. 15, 2170 (2024).
D. Sorbelli, L. Belpassi, P. Belanzoni Widening the landscape of small molecule activation with gold-aluminyl complexes: a systematic study of E-H (E=O,N) bond, SO2 and N2O activation Chem. Eur. J. e202203584 (2023).
D. Sorbelli, L. Belpassi, P. Belanzoni Radical-like reactivity for dihydrogen activation by coinage metal–aluminyl complexes: computational evidence inspired by experimental main group chemistry Chem. Sci. 14, 889-896 (2023).
M. De Santis, D. Sorbelli, V. Vallet, A. S. P. Gomes, L. Storchi, L. Belpassi Frozen-Density Embedding for Including Environmental Effects in the Dirac-Kohn–Sham Theory: An Implementation Based on Density Fitting and Prototyping Techniques J. Chem. Theory Comput. 18, 5992-6009 (2022).
D. Sorbelli, L. Belpassi, P. Belanzoni Unraveling differences in aluminyl and carbene coordination chemistry: bonding in gold complexes and reactivity with carbon dioxide Chem. Sci. 13, 4623-4634 (2022).
D. Sorbelli, P. Belanzoni, T. Saue, L. Belpassi Ground and excited electronic states of AuH2 via detachment energies on AuH2- using state-of-the-art relativistic calculations Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 22, 26742-26752 (2020).
E. Rossi, M. De Santis, D. Sorbelli, L. Storchi, L. Belpassi, P. Belanzoni Spin-orbit coupling is the key to unraveling intriguing features of the halogen bond involving astatine Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 22, 1897-1910 (2020).
D. Sorbelli, L. Nunes dos Santos Comprido, G. Knizia, A. S. K. Hashmi, L. Belpassi, P. Belanzoni, J. E. M. N. Klein Cationic gold(I) diarylallenylidene complexes: bonding features and ligand effects ChemPhysChem 20, 1671-1679 (2019).
D. Sorbelli, L. Belpassi, F. Tarantelli, P. Belanzoni Ligand effect on bonding in gold (III) carbonyl complexes Inorg. Chem. 57, 6161-6175 (2018).
Awards
EnerCHEM award (2024) - by the Italian Society of Chemistry - awarded to early career researchers with outstanding contributions in the field of chemistry for renewable energies.
Best PhD thesis award (2023) - by the Umbria division of the Italian Society of Chemistry.
Ph.D. Scholarship recipient from the "Department of Excellence" program (AMIS project) of the Italian Ministry
of University and Research, Italy (2019).
