• PERSONAL INFORMATION
ResearcherID: M-4325-2015
Scopus Author ID: 7003911417
Orcid ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-1396-4031
• CURRENT POSITION
2003 – Full Professor of Industrial Chemistry, Dipartimento Politecnico, Università di Udine, Udine, Italy
• PREVIOUS POSITIONS
1999-2003 Associate Professor of Industrial Chemistry, Department of Chemical Science and Technology, Università di Udine, Udine, Italy
1998-1999 Associate Professor of Industrial Chemistry, Department of Chemical Engineering, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
1988-1998 Assistant Professor of Industrial Chemistry, Department of Chemical Science and Technology, Università di Udine, Udine, Italy
1993 Research Associate, Dept. Chem. Eng., Colorado State University, Ft. Collins CO, (USA)
1992-1993 Research Associate, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Oregon, Eugene OR, (USA)
1991 Research Associate, Dept. of Solid State Chem. and Catalysis, University of Szeged (HU)
• AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
2022 Mario Giacomo Levi Medal Award from Italian Chemical Society (Division of Industrial Chemsitry)
2019-2021 Included in the list of top scientists from the study of Plos Biology, August 12, 2019 (in the last update at position 8415 from a list of over 190000 scientists; update 8/2022)
2015 University Research Program award from Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, MI, USA)
• SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
During over 25 years of academic career I have directly supervised several Master’s students, 18 PhD students and 14 Post Doctoral researchers in industrial chemistry and catalysis.
• TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Lectures at undergraduate levels: Industrial Chemistry for the Environmental engineering program
Lectures at master level: Technology for air pollution control for the Environmental engineering program, Chemical reaction Engineering for the Environmental engineering program
Member of the jury for the selection of candidates for attending the PhD school of Chemical and Energy Technology of the University of Udine. Member of the jury for the award of PhD degree from several Italian and foreign universities.
• ORGANISATION AND BOARDS OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
2021: Member of the scientific committee of 12th International Conference on H2 production
2018: Member of the International Advisory Committee of ICFE 10 (10th International Conference on f elements- Lauanne Switzerland)
2017: Member of the National Scientific Committee of Europacat 2017- Florence Italy
2016: Member of International Advisory Board of International Conference on Rare Earths Development and Application 2016 Lanzhou, China
2014: Chairman of the workshop Fundamentals and applications of cerium dioxide in catalysis, Udine, Italy (100 participants)
2013: Member of International Advisory Board of International Conference on Rare Earths 2013 Ganzhou, China
2012: Chairman of 8th International Conference on f-Elements, Udine, Italy (350 participants)
2005: Member of Scientific Board of VI and VII International Workshop on Catalytic Combustion (IWCC)
• MAJOR INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
2021-present Pro Rector for Research - University of Udine
2016- present Coordinator, Bachelor course of Industrial Engineering for Environmental Sustainability, University of Udine
2016-2021 Coordinator of Doctorate course in Environmental and Energy Engineering Science
2019-2020 Coordinator, Master course of Environment and Energy Engineering, University of Udine
2013-2015 Head, Department of Chemistry, Physics and Environment
2010-2013 Coordinator, Master course of Environment and Energy Engineering, University of Udine
2006-2010 Coordinator, Master course of Environmental Engineering, University of Udine
2007-present Founder and member of LOD s.r.l. Spin off company of University of Udine
2008-2013 Pro rector for Internationalization, University of Udine
2006-2009 Head, Department of Chemical Science and Technology, University of Udine
2005-2011 Member of Administrative Board of Sincrotrone Trieste, S.c.p.a.
2003-2006 Member of the Patent Committee, University of Udine
2003-2007 Member of the Spin-off Committee, University of Udine
2002-2008 Vice President and member of Administrative Board of Science & Tech. Park of Udine
• EDITOR/EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIP
2016- Guest Editor, Applied Cataysis B: Environmental, Forty years of catalysis by ceria: a success story
2015- Guest Editor, Catalysis Today, vol. 253, Fundamentals and applications of cerium dioxide in catalysis
2003- Guest Editor, Catalysis Today, vol. 77, 6th Italian Seminar on Catalysis: Fundamentals and applications to environmental problems
1999- Guest Editor, Catalysis Today, vol. 50(2), Recent Progress in catalysis by Ceria and Related Systems,
2012 – present Member of Editorial Board of Applied Catalysis B: Environmental (Elsevier)
2007 – present Member of Editorial Board of Journal of Rare Earths (Elsevier)
• REVIEWER/EVALUATOR
Expert reviewer for top interdisciplinary journals (Science, Nature, Nature Communications, Angewandte Chemie, Journal of American Chemical Society….), leading catalysis journal (e.g. ACS Catalysis, Applied Catalysis B, Journal of Catalysis, ….) ~ 40 papers/year, and for major catalysis conferences (e.g. Europacat, NAM-NACS, ICC).
Evaluator of several research proposal for Ministry and national and international agencies and /or Universities. Participant to PhD committees in France, Spain, Netherland and Switzerland. He has been nominated in 2018 evaluator for the PNR project on Energy by the Ministry of Instruction, University and Scientific Research.
• RESEARCH INTERESTS
Overall: Development of materials for catalysis. Industrial Catalytic processes.
Specific: Ceria-based catalysts; Redox catalysis; Environmental catalysis.
• SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
Author or coauthor of ca. 200 scientific publications in top international journals or books (Scopus H-index=59, n. of citations > 16000; ISI H-index=58, n. of citations ca. 15300; Google Scholar H-index=65, n. of citations ca. 22700; ref. Dec. 2022). 7 international patents. Editor of 2 books published by Imperial College Press/World Scientific. Guest Editor of 4 special issues in international catalysis journals.
Author/coauthor of several highly cited/top cited papers:
Entire career; Catal. Rev. Sci. Eng. 38, 439, 1996 (3129 cit.); J. Catal. 168, 151, 1995 (891 cit.); Catal. Tod. 50, 353, 1999 (847 cit.); J. Catal. 169, 490, 1997 (403 cit.). More recent: ACS Catalysis 4, 172, 2014, (340 cit.); ACS Catalysis 7, 4716, 2017 (400 cit.). Source ISI Dec. 2022.
• FUNDING ID AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH PROJECTS
PI of several national and international industrial grants from 2000 to 2022 (total ca. 2.4 M€) by leading international Companies and institutions.