Prof. Dr. Paolo FORNASIERO

H-Index: 74

University of Trieste, Italy, EU

Position: Professor in Inorganic Chemistry at the Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Trieste

Specialization: Design and development of multi-functional metal-oxide nanosystems, environmental heterogeneous catalysis.

At the NANOCON´17 conference Prof. Paolo Fornasiero will present the plenary lecture.

Personal Background and Education:
Paolo Fornasiero was born in 1968 in Ruti (Switzerland). In 1992 he obtained the degree in Chemistry (cum laude) and in 1997 the PhD in heterogeneous catalysis both at the University of Trieste (Italy). After one year as post-doctoral fellow at the Catalysis Research Center of the University of Reading (U.K.), in 1998 he was appointed assistant professor. In 2006, he became associate professor in Inorganic Chemistry and in 2016 he was nominated full professor in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Trieste.
He is Associate Researcher of the National Council of Research (CNR) and from 2008 he is the scientific responsible of the CNR Research Unit associated with the Institute of Chemistry of OrganoMetallic Compounds (ICCOM) of Florence and located at the University of Trieste. Since 2015 he is Associate Editor of ACS Catalysis.
Professor Fornasiero is a member of the American Chemical Society, of the European Rare-Earth and Actinide Society - ERES, as well as of the INSTM Consortium.


Research Areas:
The scientific interests of Professor Fornasiero are in the field of material chemistry, with attention to the design and development of multi-functional metal-oxide nanosystems for their advanced applications in energy related material science and environmental heterogeneous catalysis.
 

Publication Activity:
 >11 296 citations (without self-citations); Hirsch Index: 57

Key Publications (selected):

• M. Cargnello, T. Montini, S. Y. Smolin, J. B. Priebe, J. J. Delgado, V. V. T. Doan-Nguyen, I. S. McKay, J. A. Schwalbe, M.-M. Pohl, T. R. Gordon, Y. Lu, J. B. Baxter, A. Brückner, P. Fornasiero, and C. B. Murray, "Engineering titania nanostructure to tune and improve its photocatalytic activity", PNAS, 113, 2016, 3966–3971.
• Zhang, S.; Chen, C.; Cargnello, M.; Fornasiero, P.; Gorte, R.J.; Graham G.V.; Pan, X. "Dynamic structural evolution of supported palladium-ceria core-shell catalysts revealed by in situ electron microscopy",   Nature Communication 2015, 6, art. 7778.
• M. Cargnello, V. Doan-Nguyen, T.R. Gordon, R.E. Diaz, E.A. Stach, R.J. Gorte, P. Fornasiero, C.B. Murray, "Control of metal nanocrystal size reveals metal-support interface role for ceria catalysts.", Science 341 2013, 771-773.
• M. Cargnello, J.J. Delgado Jaén, J.C. Hernández Garrido, K. Bakhmutsky, T. Montini, J.J. Calvino Gámez, R.J. Gorte, P. Fornasiero, "Exceptional Activity for Methane Combustion over Modular Pd@CeO2 Subunits on Functionalized Al2O3.", Science 337 2012, 713-717.

Honors and Awards:

• Winner of the IACS (International Association of Catalysis Societies) Heinz Heinemann Award (2016)
• Chiusoli Medal awarded to an Italian researcher under 45 years by the Italian Chemical Society, for his contribution to research in the field of Catalysis (2013).
• Nasini Medal awarded to an Italian researcher under 40 years by the Italian Chemical Society, for his contribution to research in the field of Inorganic chemistry (2005).

Back