BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:Icfo X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P1W BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a0364289b88a DTSTART:20231006T100000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20231006T110000Z LOCATION:ICFO Auditorium SUMMARY:ICFO | ROBERTA CROCE CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:BIO:\nRoberta Croce studied chemistry at the University of Pado va and completed her Ph.D. in Plant Biology/Biophysics at the University o f Milano in 1998. After two postdoc periods in Germany (MPI Mulheim a.d. R urh) and Italy (University of Verona)\, she got a permanent position at th e Institute of Biophysics of the CNR first in Milan and then in Trento. In 2005 she moved to the Netherlands at Wageningen University with a visitor fellowship and in 2006 she got a tenure track assistant professor positio n (Rosalind Franklin fellowship) at the University of Groningen where she became associate professor in 2008. Since 2011 she is Professor of Biophys ics\, Photosynthesis and Energy and head of the group at Department of Phy sics of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Her research focuses on the m olecular mechanisms of photosynthesis\, using an integrated approach inclu ding molecular biology\, biochemistry and ultrafast spectroscopy. She publ ished more than 180 scientific articles on the topic of photosynthesis. Sh e is an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Scienc es (KNAW) and the Royal Holland Society of Science and Humanity (KHMW). Sh e is also a member of the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science and the Pl ant Cell\, and the recipient of several personal research grants. \; I n August 2022 she was elected president of the International Society of Ph otosynthesis.\n \; DTSTAMP:20260512T173224Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR