Lorenzo Di Bari received his BSc and PhD in Chemistry from the University of Pisa and the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa). As graduate student and postdoc, he worked with G. Bodenhausen (Lausanne, CH), J. Kowalewski and M.H. Levitt (Stockholm, SE), on NMR tools for conformational analysis of organic compounds. Back to Pisa in 1992, he started to work on Electronic Circular Dichroism, with P. Salvadori. In 1995, he was tenured at Pisa University, where he was appointed associate and full professor of Organic Chemistry. Since 2000 he’s been member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Chirality, since 2009 he is in the International Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Chiroptical Spectroscopies and since 2018 of the Chirality (formerly ISCD) symposia. He has co-authored over 240 papers and review articles in international journals, and several book chapters, receiving over 13000 citations according to Scopus.
He is mainly interested in the stereochemistry of complex systems, like flexible molecules existing as conformational manifolds, supramolecular systems, fluxional coordination compounds, self-assembling systems. His most recent activity focuses on chiral molecules and materials for organic optoelectronic devices and on the stereochemistry of natural and synthetic oligonucleotides.
In 2023 he was awarded the binational French Italian award by the Societé Chimique de France.
In 2026 he was awarded the Ordine del Cherubino from the University of Pisa.