Amedeo Avogadro

Maurizio Aceto

Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Ambiente e della Vita
Università del Piemonte Orientale "Amedeo Avogadro"
Viale Teresa Michel, 11 - 15121 - Alessandria - Italy

Biography

Dr. Maurizio Aceto was born in Turin on 28-10-1964. He lives in Turin at present. In 1988 Dr. Maurizio Aceto graduated in Chemistry from the Università di Torino with 107/110 and a thesis entitled "Caratterizzazione analitica di ceramiche del tipo Terra Sigillata". After one year of civil service, he attended the courses for a PhD in Chemical Sciences from the Università di Torino, obtaining in 1992 the title of  PhD with a thesis entitled "Metalli pesanti in traccia ed ultratraccia nell'ambiente: valutazione di labilità, mobilità e speciazione". During PhD period, he attended the Laboratory of Oceanography at the University of Liverpool, working with Prof. C. Van den Bergh. In winter 1994 he was a member of the X Antarctic expedition of PNRA - Progetto Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide; you can have a look to some images of the polar adventure here. Afterwards he was granted some scholarships by CSELT (Turin) and by Perkin-Elmer, then a biennal post-doctoral grant.
Since 1997 he is researcher at the Università del Piemonte Orientale "Amedeo Avogadro", Faculty of Sciences M.F.N.

Research

The research activity of Dr. Maurizio Aceto is centered on two main fields:

• agriculture and food chemistry
• cultural heritage

Publications

• Publications list
• Partecipations to meetings list

Projects

The research projects of Dr. Aceto are shown at the following link.

Professional services

Dr. Aceto can execute on request analysis on different samples. The list of possible analyses is shown at the following link.

Teaching

The teaching activity of Dr. Maurizio Aceto includes the following courses:

• Laboratory of environmental analytical chemistry     (2nd cycle degree in Applied Chemistry)

• Laboratory of analytical chemistry of materials (1st cycle degree in Materials Science - campus of Novara)

• Food chemistry - Module B: Food analytical chemistry (2nd cycle degree in Applied Biological Sciences)

• Chemical methods for food traceability (2nd cycle degree in Applied Biological Sciences)

• Chemical diagnostics - Module of analytical chemistry (2nd cycle degree in History of archaeological and historical-artistic heritage - Faculty of Arts - campus of Vercelli)

• Pictorial materials and Materials for the cultural heritage IB (2nd cycle degree in Sciences for the Cultural Heritage - Università di Torino, Faculty of Sciences M.F.N.)

Some examples of written tests are available on this website for the respective examinations (see corresponding links).