Master degree in Materials Science

Riccardo Pellegrini (Chimet SpA/ Italy)
Argomento: Caratterizzazione di catalizzatori basati su nanoparticelle metalliche supportate

Bert M. Weckhuysen (Department of Chemistry/ Utrecht University/ Netherlands)
Argomento: caratterizzazione di catalizzatori di polimerizzazione delle olefine

Andrea Piovano (Institute Laue Langevin/ Grenoble/ France)
Argomento: spettroscopia di scattering inelastico di neutroni (INS) applicata a catalizzatori

Piero Torelli (CNR - IOM - Sincrotrone Elettra)
Argomento: spettroscopia NEXAFS in condizioni ambientali

Giuseppe Leone (SCITEC - CNR/ Milano / Italy) e Rocco Di Girolamo (Università di Napoli /Italy)
Argomento: caratterizzazione spettroscopica di catalizzatori per la polimerizzazione delle olefine

Toshiaki Taniike (JAIST / School of Materials Science / Japan)
Argomento: caratterizzazione spettroscopica di catalizzatori Ziegler-Natta per la polimerizzazione delle olefine

Responsabilita' scientifica per progetti di ricerca internazionali e nazionali, ammessi al finanziamento sulla base di bandi competitivi che prevedano la revisione tra pari

Principal Investigator del Progetto di Ateneo 2014 - Linea Excellent (Young) PI /
Finanziato da Compagnia di San Paolo /
Titolo: "Selective Heterogeneous catalysts for Olefin Conversion"

Principal Investigator di un progetto finanziato dal Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI) /
Titolo: "Structure determination at the nanoscale and atomic dynamics of MgCl2 primary particles in Ziegler-Natta catalysts"

Principal Investigator di un progetto finanziato dal Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI) /
Titolo: "Multi-scale investigation of silica-supported ethylene polymerization catalysts during the early stages of the reaction"

Coordinatore nazionale di un progetto PRIN2017 finanziato dal MIUR /
Titolo: "Chromium catalysis: from fundamental understanding to functional aliphatic polymers
(Cr4FUN)"

2008: "Award for the best Young Scientist" / Società Italiana Luce di Sincrotrone (SILS)

2014: Medaglia d'oro Ivano Bertini / Società Chimica Italiana / Motivazione: "Per la sua creativa e autonoma attività di ricerca di alto livello in un campo strategico sia per la ricerca fondamentale che industriale. Al confine tra catalisi e scienza delle superfici, la sua ricerca ha dimostrato sia il dominio di tecniche spettroscopiche avanzate sia ottime conoscenze nel campo della catalisi industriale"

24.06.2010 – 25.06.2010: Invited Keynote lecture at the 7th LSP/JAIST International Colloquium on Heterogeneous Ziegler-NattaCatalysts, Sorrento (Italy) / Title: “Transforming a Phillips into a Ziegler-Natta catalyst by tailoring the structure of the active sites”

15.09.2010 – 18.09.2010: Lezione a invito durante la Scuola di Catalisi, GIC 2010, Palermo (Italy) / Titolo: "Ethylene polymerization catalysts: a frontier for spectroscopic methods"

27.03.2012 – 30.03.2012: Invited Keynote lecture at 8th LSP/JAIST International Colloquium on Heterogeneous Ziegler-Natta Catalysts, Kanazawa (Japan) / Title: “Spectroscopic methods applied to heterogeneous polymerization catalysts: what can help”

27.05.2013 – 31.05.2013: Invited Keynote lecture at E-MRS 2013 Spring meeting, Strasbourg (France)/ Title: “Heterogeneous Ziegler-Natta catalysts for ethylene polymerization: generation of the active Ti sites as followed by XAS-XES techniques”

01.09.2014 – 12.09.2014: “Ivano Bertini” Lecture at XXV SCI Congress, Arcavacata (Italy) / Title: “Selective catalysis & spectroscopies: an essential pair at the frontier between fundamental and industrial chemistry”

22.10.2014 – 25.10.2014: Invited Keynote lecture at International Workshop on Olefin Polymerization & High Performance Polyolefins, Shangai (R. P. China) / Title: “A new life for an evergreen: new experimental approaches for Ziegler-Natta catalysts”

23.11.2015 – 27.11.2015: Invited Keynote lecture at World Polyolefin Congress 2015, Tokyo (Japan) / Title: "Diverse reductants for Cr(VI)/SiO2 lead to reduced chromium sites differently active"

27.06.2016 – 01.07.2016: Invited Keynote lecture at 4th Blue Sky Conference, Sorrento (Italy) / Title: "Surface investigation and morphological analysis of structurally disordered MgCl2 and MgCl2/TiCl4 Ziegler-Natta catalysts"

07.01.2018 – 12.01.2018: Invited lesson at the International Winter School “Innovative Catalysis and sustainability: scientific and socio-economic aspects”, Bardonecchia (Italy)

10.10.2018 – 12.10.2018: Invited lecture at the 'Neutron Vibrational Spectroscopy’ Workshop, ILL & ESS User Meeting, Grenoble (France) / Title: "The contribution of INS to the understanding of Pd and Pt-based hydrogenation catalysts: past, present and future"

24.06.2019 – 28.06.2019: Invited Keynote Lecture at the 5th Blue Sky Conference, Sorrento (Italy) / Title: "Ziegler-Natta (and related) catalysts from up and close: a 4-labs combined characterization approach"

18.08.2019 – 23.08.2019: Invited Keynote lecture at 14th European Congress on Catalysis, EuropaCat 2019, Aachen (Germany) / Title: "Olefin polymerization catalysis: is it really a mature field of research?"

24.08.2019 – 27.08.2019: Invited lecture at the Catalysis connected workshop, Utrecht (The Netherlands) / Title: "Spectroscopy and catalysis: an eye on the active sites, but not only"

14.09.2021 - 23.09.2021: Invited key-note lecture at the XXVII Congresso Nazionale della Società Chimica Italiana / Online/ Title: Revisiting the use of probe molecules in the characterization of heterogeneous olefin polymerization catalysts by IR spectroscopy