Giuseppe Gattuso was born in Messina, 27/10/1970. He graduated in Chemistry (cum laude) at the Università di Messina in 1993 and obtained a PhD in Chemistry in 1997from the University of
Birmingham, under the supervision of Nobel Laureate Prof. Sir J. F. Stoddart.
In 1999, he obtained the position of ‘Ricercatore’ (Assistant Professor) in Organic Chemistry at the Istituto di Chimica dei Composti Eterociclici of the Facoltà di Scienze MM. FF. NN., Università di Messina. In November 2014 was appointed Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche of the Università di Messina. Since January 2021 he holds the position of Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Biologiche, Farmaceutiche ed Ambientali of the Università di Messina.
He has organized international and national conferences both in the fields of supramolecular chemistry and natural products.
Over the past years, he has mentored about 30 BSc, MS, PhD students and postdoc. He presented the results of his research in 19 research lectures in conferences (6 invited plenary lectures).
He has been awarded funding as local PI (PRIN 2017, FABBR 2017) or as participant (PRIN 2000, 2003, 2006, 2009) at national level.