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Leonardo
Marchese
was born in Italy (Stigliano, MT) on 01.08.1960.
He
graduated with top marks (110/110 with laude) at
the University of
Turin on July, 1985 and obtained, in the same
University, the PhD
degree in Chemistry (September 1990), followed by
the positions of
Research Assistant (February 1992), Researcher
(November 1994) and
Associate Professor (November 1998). Since 2005,
he is Full Professor
in Physical Chemistry at the Faculty of Science
MFN of the
"Università del Piemonte Orientale - Amedeo
Avogadro ".
His
research
interests concern the development of innovative
layered or porous
inorganic and organic/inorganic hybrids and
multifunctional
polyhedral silsesquioxanes (POSS), which have been
used in several
applications as: i) polymeric
composite
materials with enhanced flame retardant
properties;
ii) acid and/or
redox catalysts for
sustainable chemistry;
iii) light
emitting materials for optoelectronics;
iv) magnetic
materials for biomedicine.
These research activities have been published on
high impact factor
journals, including, Angew. Chem., Chem. Commun.,
Chem. Phys. Phys.
Chem., Langmuir, J. Phys. Chem., Chem. Eur. J.,
Chem. Mat. J. Mater.
Chem., Green Chem.. One of the most recent work on
innovative hybrid
inorganic-organic materials has been published on
Angew. Chem. as VIP
(Very important Paper) article. L. Marchese has
been Guest Editor of
two themed issues of J. Mater. Chem. and
Microporous and Mesoporous
Materials dedicated to layered materials and their
applications in
Catalysis and Nanotechnology and one of Physical
Chemistry Chemical
Physics, dedicated to physical chemistry at the
cross-road of
advanced oxide materials.
He
is (or
has been) Coordinator of several European and
National Projects,
among which the most prestigious are:
-
European
STREP project of the VI FP titled: "Novel
Inorganic
Nanostructured Materials and Devices with
Enhanced
Photoemission Activity and Thermal Stability"
(2005-2008), STABILIGHT; among others, Fiat
Research Centre and
Nanoscience Centre of the University of Cambridge
were involved in
this project;
-
European
Project of the VII FP (joint call NMP-ENERGY)
titled "Innovative
Materials for Future Generation Excitonic Solar
Cells"
(2009-2012), INNOVASOL; among others, Fiat
Research Centre,
Nanoscience Centre of the University of Cambridge
(Prof. M. Welland)
and Laboratory of Photonic and Interfaces of the
Ecole Polytechnique
of Lausanne (Prof. M. Graetzel) are involved in
this project.
-
European
Project of the VII FP titled: “Global
solar
spectrum harvesting through highly efficient
photovoltaic and
thermoelectric integrated cells”
(2013-2016), GLOBASOL; among others, Ecole
Polytechnique of Lausanne,
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Technische
Universitaet Dresden,
Fraunhofer – Gesellschaft, Cardiff University,
NLAB Solar AB are
involved in this project.
The
research
activities in the field of Nanoscience and
Nanotechnology have
allowed the constitution in the Università del
Piemonte Orientale of
an Interdisciplinary Centre, Nano-SiSTeMI, where
the most advanced,
top level equipments are present included a very
recent solid state
NMR spectrometer.
L.
Marchese
covers the following Academic positions:
-
Vice-Director of the Department of Science and
Technological
Innovation of the Università del Piemonte
Orientale;
-
Director
of the Master Course of "Materials for Energy and
Environment";
-
Representative of the University of Eastern
Piedmont in the
scientific board of PROPLAST a consortium of 15
Italian Universities
and over 200 small and medium enterprises and
multinational companies
involved in the research/production of plastic
materials.
-
Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Centre,
Nano-SiSTeMI, which
includes over 40 young and senior researchers.
He
has
co-authored over 213
original
publications on
international
scientific journals and 3 international patents.
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Prof. Leonardo Marchese
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