Personal profile
Biography
Giovanni Bressan is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of East Anglia's School of Chemistry, Pharmacy and Pharmacology, a position he has held since 2024. His research focuses on the role of nuclear dynamics in ultrafast photoinduced processes, with a focus on excited state aromaticity reversal. To explore such phenomena, he develops and employs coherent multidimensional spectroscopic techniques.
Previously, he served as a Senior Research Associate at UEA and as a Research Associate at Imperial College London under the supervision of Professor Jasper J. van Thor, where he developed both experimental and theoretical aspects of multidimensional spectroscopies.
Dr. Bressan completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of East Anglia between 2016 and 2019, working under the guidance of Professors Ismael A. Heisler, Stephen R. Meech, and Garth A. Jones.
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
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Anti-Kasha Materials: Myth or Photonics Paradigm
Meech, S. (Principal Investigator), Bressan, G. (Co-Investigator), Cammidge, A. (Co-Investigator) & Jones, G. (Co-Investigator)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/08/24 → 31/07/27
Project: Research
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Coherent structural dynamics in aromaticity reversal
Bressan, G. (Principal Investigator)
1/04/24 → 31/03/27
Project: Fellowship
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Conformational Switching Modulates Excited-State Pathways in a Cofacial Perylene Dimer
Bressan, G., Hartmann, D., Brouwer, J., Braun, E. M., Bull, J. N. & Barendt, T. A., 25 Mar 2026, In: Chemical Science. 17, 12, p. 5921-5933 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Photomolecular rotor dynamics of the oxindole-based photoprotective bacterial pigment violacein
Bressan, G., Siddiqui, K., Ashworth, E. K., Chakraborty, P., Banerjee, D., Braun, E. M., Meech, S. R. & Bull, J. N., 14 Jan 2026, In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 28, 2, p. 1260-1268 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Symmetry-breaking charge-separation in a subphthalocyanine dimer resolved by two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy
Bressan, G., Chambrier, I., Cammidge, A. N. & Meech, S. R., 16 Jan 2025, In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 129, 2, p. 1069–1077 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy of Betaine-30
Meech, S. R., Bull, J. N. & Bressan, G., 7 May 2025, In: The Journal of Chemical Physics. 162, 18, 184302.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ultrafast photophysics of the cyan fluorescent protein chromophore in solution
Fatima, A., Ashworth, E. K., Fernandes, I., Cammidge, A. N., Bressan, G., Meech, S. R. & Bull, J. N., 14 May 2025, In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 27, 18, p. 9407-9416 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Datasets
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Vibrational coherences in half-broadband 2D electronic spectroscopy: spectral filtering to identify excited state displacements
Green, D. (Creator), Meech, S. (Creator), Jones, G. (Creator), Bressan, G. (Creator) & Heisler, I. (Creator), Zenodo, 10 Apr 2024
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Prizes
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Coherent MultiDimensional Spectroscopy
Bressan, G. (Speaker)
2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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Ultrafast Phenomena
Bressan, G. (Speaker)
2024 → …Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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Applied Optics (Journal)
Bressan, G. (Peer reviewer)
2024Activity: Editorial work › Publication peer-review
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Light-matter Interactions from scratch: Theory and Experiments at the Border with Biology
Bressan, G. (Speaker)
22 Nov 2021 → 25 Nov 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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Journal of Materials Chemistry C (Journal)
Bressan, G. (Peer reviewer)
2021Activity: Editorial work › Publication peer-review