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Stefano
Colonna was born in Bologna (Italy) in 1941 and graduated cum laude in
Industrial Chemistry, University of Bologna (1964). He went in England
for one year (1970-1971) of postgraduate experience with Prof. C. Stirling
(Bangor). Back in Italy he was a Research Assistant for several years and
in 1980 he became full Professor of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy,
University of Milano. He has been visiting Professor in Barcelona (1980),
Toulouse (1990), Strasbourg (1991), Paris VI (1993) and Marseille (2002).
His
research interests are: bioorganic chemistry, asymmetric catalysis, stereoselective
reactions with natural and synthetic peptides, oxidative biotransformations
with peroxidases and monooxygenases, models of enzymes.
He
is the scientific director of the Carlo Erba Foundation (Milan), and has
contributed to the organisation of the following international meetings
in the series “The Future of Science has begun“: Approaches to Artificial
Life and Artificial Intelligence,1994; The Communication of Science to
the Public: Science and the Media, 1996; What is Time: An Interdisciplinary
Approach, 1997 ; Space or Spaces as Paradigms of Mental Categories, 1999;
The Emergence of the Mind, 2000; Exploring Consciousness, 2002; The Body
and the Sense of Self, 2004.
He
is also one of the promoters of Centre for the Diffusion of the Scientific
and Technological Culture between the Università degli Studi di
Milano, Università Cattolica, Università Bocconi and Politecnico
of Milano, member of the scientific committee of the Lorenzini Foundation
of Milan, member of the International Scientific Council of Grenoble Pole
Européen Universitaire et Scientifique, member of the Società
Chimica Italiana, Associazione Italiana di Biocatalisi, Royal Society of
Chemistry and of The International Society for the Study of the Origin
of Life. |