Dr. C. (Celso) de Mello-Donega

Leonard S. Ornsteinlaboratorium
Princetonplein 1
Kamer OL111
3584 CC Utrecht

Dr. C. (Celso) de Mello-Donega

Universitair hoofddocent
Condensed Matter and Interfaces
030 253 2226
c.demello-donega@uu.nl

 

  • Degree Director of Education – Chemical Sciences, Board of Studies of the Graduate School of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University (2023 - present).
  • Director of the Nanomaterials Science Master’s Programme, Department of Chemistry - Utrecht University (2023 - present).
  • Member of the Departmental Promotion Advisory Committee, Department of Chemistry - Utrecht University (2023 - present).
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board (Onderzoeksadviesraad - OZAR), Department of Chemistry - Utrecht University (2018 -2022).
  • Organizing Committee. Fundamentals and Methods of Chemistry Day, May 2022, Utrecht, The Netherlands. 
  • Expert Evaluator, Horizon 2020 – European Innovation Committee – PathFinder Open  (2022-present)
  • Scientific Monitor of EU Horizon-2020 FET-Open (2019- present)
  • Conference Chair. 2020 International Conference on Solution-based Two-dimensional Nanomaterials, Sol2D-20 
  • Conference Chair. 2016 International Conference on Solution-based Two-dimensional Nanomaterials, Sol2D16
  • Conference Chair. 2015 International Conference on Fundamental Processes in Semiconductor Nanocrystals, FQDots15
  • Managing Director of the Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Faculty of Sciences - Utrecht University (September 2014 – September 2017)
  • Chair Board of Examiners (Examencommissie) - Graduate School of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Sciences - Utrecht University (November 2012 – September 2014)
  • Member Board of Examiners (Examencommissie Bachelor) - Undergraduate School Faculty of Sciences - Utrecht University (September 2012 – March 2013)
  • Member Board of Examiners (Examencommissie Scheikunde) – Dept. of Chemistry - Utrecht University (April 2008 – March 2013)
  • Course Director, UtrechtUniversity Summerschool “Nanomaterials: Science and Applications”, Utrecht, Netherlands (2010-2011)
  • Organizing Committee and International Advisory Board of Scientific conferences and Summer schools
  • Reviewer for several journals: Science, Nature Publishing group (Nature Communications, Nature Energy, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology), American Chemical Society journals (ACS Nano, Chemistry of Materials, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Physical Chemistry B & C, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Nano Letters), Small, Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie, Nanoscale, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Chemical Communications, RSC Advances, Physical Reports, Optics Communications, Journal of Materials Chemistry. 
  • Reviewer for funding agencies: Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research – NWO; U.S. Department of Energy; European Research Council - ERC; European Union; FNSNF (Swiss National Science Foundation); U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation, CNPq, CAPES, PADCT, FACEPE (Brazilian Funding Agencies).
  • Member of assessment committees of PhD and MSc thesis in several institutions worldwide