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Mario Pagliaro

Mario Pagliaro, Ph.D., is a research chemist and management educator based in Palermo at Palermo's CNR where he leads a research group along with the Institute for Scientific Methodology and Sicily's Photovoltaics Research Pole.

In 2008 he was invited to give the John van Geuns Lecture at the University of Amsterdam.

Currently he chairs the organizing committee of the 10th edition of FIGIPAS Meeting in Inorganic Chemistry to be held in Palermo on July 2009. 

He is the author of the books Silica-Based Materials for Advanced Chemical Applications, The Future of Glycerol, Flexible Solar Cells, Lean Banking and Scenario: Qualità and has co-authored several tens of scientific papers, including international patents.

Research and professional background

Mario's research interests focus on the overlap of biology, chemistry and materials science, and has resulted in several new chemical technologies.

Dr Pagliaro holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from Palermo's University (1998) with a thesis on the “Selective oxidations of carbohydrates” carried out with his two mentors: David Avnir in Jerusalem and Arjan de Nooy in Holland. In 1993 he graduated cum laude in chemistry studying one of the first application of fractal geometry to chemistry (“Structural characterization of palladium catalysts supported on silica”).

He has studied and worked in Israel, Netherlands, France and Germany and currently collaborates with Rosaria Ciriminna and researchers of eight Countries doing research on new functional materials of scientific and industrial interest.

In 2005 he was appointed "Maître de conférences associé" at theFrance's ENSCM and was invited speaker at the XV edition of the International Symposium on Fine Chemistry and Functional Polymers in Shangai (Cina).

Between 1993 and 1994 he worked in Holland (first at Leiden's Rijks Universiteit and then at the TNO Food Research Institute in Zeist). In 1998 he was at Grenoble's Cnrs with Dr. Michel Vignon, and in 2001 he joined Carsten Bolm at Aachen's Polytechnic. In 2004 and in 2005 he has worked with Joël Moreau and Michel Wong at Montpellier's Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie.

Education and management

Dr. Pagliaro has over 800 hours of teaching experience having taught management to entrepreneurs, managers and young graduates at the Quality College del Cnr. Since his return to Italy in 1998, he managed the funds earned with the Quality College to restructure the labs of his institute and to establish relationships with important management and scientific schools worldwide.

Since 2004 he organizes the prestigeous Seminar "Marcello Carapezza".

Mario's biography is featured in the 2006 and 2007 editions of Who is Who in Science and Engineering.

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Contact

Dr. Mario Pagliaro
CNR
via U. La Malfa 153 90146 Palermo PA (Italy)
E-mail: mario.pagliaro@gmail.com and mario.pagliaro@ismn.cnr.it
Phone: +39 091 680 93 70; Fax: +39 091 680 92 47
Website: www.qualitas1998.net

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