Title Associate Professor of Industrial Chemistry
Date of birth October 8th, 1963
Nationality Italian
Degree in Chemistry (1988, University of Sassari, Italy)
PhD in Chemistry (1993, University of Sassari, Italy)
Qualifications obtained
- Degree in Chemistry (110/110 cum laude) (Università di Sassari).
- PhD in Chemical Science (Università di Sassari).
- 2013 National Qualification for the Full Professor position in Industrial Chemistry
- 2013 National Qualification for the Full Professor position in Organic Chemistry
- 2013 National Qualification for the Full Professor position in Chemical basis for technologies
Positions
1993-2010 Assistant Professor of Macromolecular and Industrial Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Sassari, Italy
1994 Two months at the University of Mainz, Germany, after the supervision of Prof. Helmut Ringsdorf
1996 Two months at the DuPont de Nemours, Geneva, Switzerland.
1999 Two months at the University of Southern Mississippi, USA; invited by Prof. John A. Pojman.
2010 to date Associate Professor of Macromolecular and Industrial Chemistry, University of Sassari, Italy
2013 Director of the International Master on Green Chemistry, University of Sassari
Main Research Activities
- Frontal Polymerization: development and applications
- Synthesis and characterization of polymer nanocomposites
- Synthesis and characterization of Stimuli-responsive polymer materials
- Obtainment of graphene and its analogues, and their use for the preparation of polymeric nanocomposites
- Advanced elastomers materials and their modifications
- Polymer materials from renewable sources
- Green Polymerization Chemistry
Teaching Activity
1996-2005 Macromolecular Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Sassari, Italy
1998- Polymer Chemistry, PhD School of Chemical Sciences, University of Sassari, Italy
2004-2009 Biocompatible Polymer Materials, School of Molecular Biotechnology, University of Sassari, Italy
2005- Macromolecular and Industrial Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Sassari, Italy
1991- Supervisor and tutor of various macromolecular Thesis at the degree course in Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Sassari. Tutor of some PhD students in Chemical Sciences (Profile: Industrial Chemistry), Department of Chemistry, University of Sassari.
1991-1995 Lessons about Polymer Synthesis in Macromolecular Chemistry course, School of Chemistry, University of Sassari, Italy.
2004-2005 Teacher of Introduction of Macromolecular Science, School of Chemistry, University of Sassari.
2005-2009 Teacher of Polymer Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Sassari.
2010- Teacher of Industrial and Polymer Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Sassari.
2011- Teacher of Industrial and Polymer Chemistry: Advanced Course, School of Chemistry, University of Sassari.
2012-2013 Teacher of Macromolecular Synthesis in the International Master on Green Chemistry, University of Sassari
2014-to date Teacher of Organic Chemistry, School of Natural Sciences, University of Sassari
Scientific affiliations
- Italian Association of Macromolecular Science and Technology (AIM)
- Italian Interuniversity Consortium of Materials Science and Technology (INSTM)
- European Centre for Nanostructured Polymers (ECNP).
- American Chemical Society