EDUCATION
- 2008: Ph.D. in Industrial Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (cum Laude – highest honours – advisor: Prof. E. Tronconi), Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- 2004: Master of Science in Chemical Engineering (cum laude – highest honours), Politecnico di Milano, Italy
CURRENT POSITION
- 2019 – present: Full Professor of Chemical Engineering, permanent, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
- 2015 – 2019: Associate professor (permanent) of Chemical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- 2008 – 2015: Assistant professor (permanent) of Chemical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- 2011: Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Department of Chemistry, TU München, Germany
- 2009 – 2010: Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Fritz-Haber-Institut, Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany
- 2009: Visiting Scholar, Fritz-Haber-Institut, Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany
- 2006 – 2007: Visiting Scholar, Department of Chemical Engineering, Center for Catalytic Science and Technology, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware (USA)
HONORS/AWARDS
- 2023: Member of the TUM-Institute for Advanced Study, TU München, Germany
- 2023: ERC Proof of Concept Grant, European Research Council
- 2022: “Gianpaolo Chiusoli” Gold Medal in Catalysis, Italian Chemical Society
- 2021: TUM Ambassador, TU München, Germany
- 2021: ERC Proof of Concept Grant, European Research Council
- 2021: plenary speaker at Annual Meeting of the German Subject Group on Chemical Reaction Engineering, Würzburg, Germany
- 2019: selected for the I&EC Class of Influential Researchers 2019, American Chemical Society
- 2018: selected for the Reaction Chemistry and Engineering “2019 Emerging Investigators special issue”, Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2018: Pregl Lecture, Kemijski inštitut, National Institute of Chemistry – Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 2017: Listed in the selection of Italy’s best under-40 researchers currently active both in Italy and abroad, CARTADITALIA – Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Brussels
- 2016: selected for a Feature Article in Chemical Communications, Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2016: ERC Starting Grant – ERC, European Research Council, Personal career grant
- 2016: selected for the Early Career Series of ChemPlusChem, Wiley
- 2015: SIR (Scientific Independence of Young Researchers) – MIUR, Rome, Personal career grant
- 2012: Young Scientist Award at the 15th International Congress on Catalysis (Munich, Germany, July 1-6, 2012), presented by the International Association of Catalysis Societies (IACS).
- 2010: Young Researcher Award at the 21st International Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineer (ISCRE), June 13-16, 2010, Philadelphia, USA
- 2009: Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship
- 2008: Young Scientist Award at the 14th International Congress on Catalysis (Seoul, Korea, July 13-18, 2008), presented by the International Association of Catalysis Societies (IACS).
PUBLICATION DETAILS and RESEARCH INTERESTS
The full list of publications can be retrieved from my ORCID link and from Scopus.
My group is part of the Laboratory of Catalysis and Catalytic Processes of the Politecnico di Milano.
During my research activity, I have developed interdisciplinary and multiscale skills and expertise, spanning from macroscopic chemical reaction engineering to first-principles studies addressing elementary processes at the nanoscale. This research experience was gained in an interdisciplinary corridor between catalysis and reaction engineering and between physical chemistry (semi-empirical and first-principles methods) and chemical engineering (transport phenomena, applied mathematics, numerical analysis) in close interaction with kinetic experiments.
My main active research areas are:
- Heterogeneous catalysis.
- Multiscale modeling of catalytic chemical processes.
- Kinetic modeling and analysis.
- Computational fluid dynamics of reactive systems.
- Density Functional Theory (DFT) electronic structure calculations of materials and chemical reactions.
- Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations.
- Operando kinetic experiments involving Raman and UV-vis spectroscopy.
In the last 5 years he has been the PI of several public (H2020, Horizon Europe, MIUR, PNRR-Next-generation-EU) research projects in excess of 4,000,000 Euro and more than 30,000,000 CPU hours in national and international HPC Centers. This includes 3 ERC grants (ERC StG 2015, ERC PoC 2020, ERC PoC 2022) and supervisors of 3 Marie Curie Individual fellowships (2 in 2018 and 1 in 2023).
ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS AND COMMISSIONS OF TRUST
- 2022-present: Member of the Scientific Board, TUM Talent Factory, Technische Universität München, Germany
- 2021-present: member of the Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Engineering, American Chemical Society
- 2019-2021: Vice-Chair of the CHEMREACTOR-24 Program Committee, XXIV International Conference on Chemical Reactors, Milano, September 2020
- 2018: organizer (together with prof. J. Thybaut, Gent University) of the International workshop “Bridging Laboratory Chemical Kinetics to Industrial Scale Reactors – 2nd edition”, Firenze, May 23-27, 2018
- 2017: member of the organizing committee of ISCRE 25 (International Symposium of Chemical Reaction Engineering), Firenze, Italy, May 20-23, 2018
- 2017: organizer (together with prof. J. Thybaut, Gent University) of the International workshop “Bridging Laboratory Chemical Kinetics to Industrial Scale Reactors”, Firenze, August 23-25, 2017
- 2015: member of the International Scientific Committee of ISCRE 24 (International Symposium of Chemical Reaction Engineering), Minneapolis, USA, June 12-15, 2016
- 2013: organizer (together with G. Groppi, E. Tronconi) of the European Colloquium on Chemical Reaction Engineering 2013 – “First-principles methods in Chemical Reaction Engineering”, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, October 17-18, 2013 – sponsored by the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE).
- 2011: organizer (together with R. Horn and K. Reuter) of DeMiR 2011: From Detailed Microkinetics to the Reactor – European Workshop on Multiscale Catalytic Reactor Engineering, TUM, Munich, September 6, 2011