Davide Bonifazi was born in Guastalla (Italy) in 1975. After obtaining the “Laurea” in “Industrial Chemistry” from the University of Parma (1994-1999), working with Prof. E. Dalcanale (organic synthesis and metal-directed self-assembly of cavitands derivatives), he joined the group of Prof. F. Diederich as a doctoral fellow (organic functionalization of [60]fullerene and porphyrin derivatives) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich (2000-2004). During his doctoral studies, he was also a visiting scientist at the Weizmann Institute Scientist, working with Prof. D. Cohen. He was awarded the Silver Medallion of the ETH for his doctoral dissertation (2005). After a one-year postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. M. Prato at the University of Trieste (organic functionalization of carbon nanotubes), he joined the Department of Pharmaceutical Science at the University of Trieste as a research associate first and then as a part-time Researcher/Professor (2012-2016). In 2006, he joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Namur (BE) as a Junior Professor (2006-2011) and as an Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry (2012-2015). Between 2016 and 2020 was Chair Professor of Organic Supramolecular Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at Cardiff University (UK), until his current appointment as Chair Professor in Organic Chemistry at the University of Vienna. He was awarded the “Ciamician Medal” and “Modena Medal” from the Organic Division of the Italian Chemical Society and held an ERC starting grant.

His activities are focused on creating organic architectures in interdisciplinary projects through targeted organic synthesis, self-assembly, and self-organization in solution and on surfaces, physical-organic studies, photocatalysis and solar energy conversion, and material- and biobased design.