Mario Pagliaro is Research Director at
Italy's Research Council based in Palermo, Italy, where he leads a
research
Group focusing on nanochemistry, solar energy, green chemistry and
the bioeconomy. In 2021 "due to outstanding achievements as a researcher"
he was elected
ordinary
member of the Academia Europaea. In 2014, in recognition of his
"significant contributions to the chemical sciences" he was designated
Fellow
of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
He ranks in the
top
2% World Ranking list of Scientists in all fields of science,
2nd
amid the world's top 10 bioeconomy scholars, and ranks within the
top 30
Top
Italian Scientists in material and nano sciences.
Developed in co-operation with leading researchers based in more than 20
countries, his Group's research is reported in nearly 360
frequently
cited research papers, 39 of which featuring on the
cover
of journals such as
Materials Advances,
ChemSusChem,
Nanoscale,
Catalysis Science & Technology
and
Chemical Communications.
Frequently cited for his
excellence in teaching, he has given more than 100 invited public
presentations at conferences, seminars, workshops and meetings on the
topics of his research and educational activities. On August 28, 2019, he
gave in St. Petersburg, Russia, one of the six plenary lectures at the
XX
International Sol-Gel Conference, the leading conference on sol-gel
material science and technology. In 2005 he was appointed “Maître de
conférences associé”at Montpellier’s Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie.
In 2008, when a few scholars believed in the
forthcoming emergence of photovoltaic technology as a significant
contributor to the global energy generation mix, Dr Pagliaro
introduced the term 'helionomics'
in his joint book Flexible Solar Cells.
Between September and December 2015 he was president of Palermo's energy
utility AMG Energia.
He has authored or co-authored 22
books
some of which have become the reference in their field. His work has been
widely highlighted by national and international press, including by
MIT
Technology Review,
Advanced
Science News, Italy's national television, newspapers and
magazines.
Currently, he co-edits the themed issue "
Green
Extraction of Natural Products After Farid Chemat" of
Sustainable
Chemistry and Pharmacy dedicated to the memory of Farid Chemat. In
2018 he co-edited with Bert Sels the "
Supported
Molecular Catalysts" thematic issue of
ChemCatChem.
In 2015 he guest-edited with Paolo Fornasiero the "
Pd
Catalysis" issue of
ChemCatChem, following the 2014
"
Hybrid
Materials"
Nanoscale themed issue with Jean-Marie
Nedelec. In 2011 he co-edited with with Graham Hutchings the "
Heterogeneous
Catalysis
for Fine Chemicals" issue of
Catalysis Science &
Technology which later on led to the inauguration of the FineCat
symposia in Sicily
. In 2017 he edited the "
Catalysis
and
Biocatalysis" themed issue of
Chimica Oggi-Chemistry Today.
Student mentor and reviewer
He has mentored several
M.Sci. and Ph.D.
students in Italy and abroad in the context of international
collaborations. Some of his former sudents and post-docs today work at
prestigious universities, publishers and innovative companies.
Dr Pagliaro has been appointed in several international committees with
appointments so far in Doctoral evaluation committees from Liverpool
University (UK), Khalifa University of Science and Technology (UAE),
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
(Spain), Université Lille 1 Sciences et Technologie (France), Università
Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria (Italy), as well as in the professional
evaluation committee of the Ariel University and of the Sami Shamoon
College of Engineering for a position of Associate Professor in the
Department of Chemical Engineering of Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
Besides acting as reviewer scientific journals including
Nature
and
Science and most chemistry,
energy and materials science journals, he regularly evaluates research
project for national and international research agencies and science
ministries, including France Research Agency, Israel Ministry of Science,
Dutch Research Council NWO, Royal Society, Fonds de recherche du Québec,
Israel Science Foundation, São Paulo Research Foundation, the Netherlands
Organisation for Scientific Research, Pazi Foundation, US-Israel
Binational Science Foundation, Research Foundation - Flanders, Estonian
Research Council, Poland National Science Centre, and the Natural Sciences
and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
In June 2017, following an invitation from the Russian Academy of the
Sciences he gave two
invited
lectures in Moscow. In May 2012 he held in Quebéc one of the invited
key lectures at the 22nd Canadian Symposium on Catalysis. The subsequent
October he was invited by Zurich's ETH to lecture on solar hydrogen. In
2008 the University of Amsterdam invited him to give the "John van Geuns
Lecture". In 2010 he was invited to give a keynote lecture at the 8th
Eurofedlipid Congress in Munich.
Conference chair
In 2009 he chaired the 10th FIGIPAS Meeting in Inorganic Chemistry held in
Palermo with over 300 scientists originating from more than 50 different
countries («
A
smashing success»). Between 2011 and 2017 he co-chaired the “
SuNEC
- Sun New Energy Energy Conference” and the “
FineCat
- Symposium on heterogeneous catalysis for fine chemicals”, both
held yearly in Sicily. The meetings saw the lectures of scientists of
international standing in chemistry, solar energy and new energy science
and technology.
Between 2004 and 2017, he organized the prestigious
Seminar
"Marcello Carapezza" whose 2011 edition was hosted by Italy’s
Parliament.
Educational studies and journal board memberships
An advocate of research-based scientific education, Dr Pagliaro has also
published several studies in catalysis, open science, solar energy, energy
management, chemistry and nanochemistry education.
Dr Pagliaro is or has been a member of the Advisory Board of
Chemical
Society Reviews,
Energy Technology, Journal of
Physics: Energy, Energy Science & Engineering,
ChemistryOpen,
Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy and
Chimica Oggi/Chemistry Today. He is a member of the
Editorial Board of
ChemistrySelect, Molecules, 4Open, Silicon,
Green Technology, Resilience and Sustainability, Coatings,
General Chemistry and
Letters
in Organic Chemistry.
Between 2017 and 2020, he wrote the “Biomaterials & Nanomaterials”
column of
Chimica
Oggi - Chemistry Today.
In early 2019,
ChemistryOpen
dedicated to him its first Meet the Board
editorial.
In 2013 Professor Rossi published in
Silicon an account of his
early
achievements in science and in education.
Contact
E-mail: mario.pagliaro@cnr.it
Twitter:
@helionomics
Mario Pagliaro