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Ivano Bertini born in Pisa in 1940, he received his doctorate in Chemistry at the University of Florence in 1964 and became full professor of Chemistry there in 1975. He is the Director of the Magnetic Resonance Center (CERM) a Center of Excellence at the University of Florence and a European-funded research infrastructure. His main research interests are nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), the expression and preparation of metalloproteins, their structural characterization, and the investigation of their interactions with an emphasis on understanding cellular processes at the molecular level. He has written over 600 papers and many books. He received the Chugaev Diploma from the Kurnakov Institute of the Academy of Science, USSR, in 1981; the Golden Medal of the Magnetic Resonance Group of the Italian Chemical Society in 1991; the Accademia dei Lincei Prize, Italy, in 1993; the Bijvoet Medal, Utrecht, NL, in 1998; the Sapio NMR Prize, Italy, in 1999; the Cannizzaro Medal of the Italian Chemical Society in 2006; and the Basolo Medal, Northwestern University, USA, in 2006. His special lectures include: A.D. Little Lecturer at MIT, Cambridge, MS, USA, in 1997; E.L. Mütterties Lecturer at Berkeley, CA, USA, in 1997; FECS lecturer, Athens, in 2002 and Swift Lecture, CALTECH, Pasadena, USA, in 2007. He has received three honorary doctorates: Laurea Honoris Causa in Chemistry University of Stockholm, Sweden, 1998; Laurea Honoris Causa in Chemistry, University of Ioannina, Greece, 2002;-+ Laurea Honoris Causa in Biological Sciences, University of Siena, Italy, 2003. He is a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and the Academia Europaea.
