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Mario Pagliaro, Ph.D., is a chemistry and management scholar based in Palermo at Italy's CNR where he leads an research group which collaborates with researchers of 10 countries. Mario's research interests focus on the overlap of biology, chemistry and materials science are reflected in 8 books, some 80 research papers, several international patents and book chapters, and numerous new commercial technologies.
He is the co-founder of the Institute for Scientific Methodology and founder and director of Sicily's Photovoltaics Research Pole.
In 2008 he was invited to give the John van Geuns Lecture at the University of Amsterdam. In 2009 he was the chairman of the 10th edition of FIGIPAS Meeting in Inorganic Chemistry held in Palermo on July 2009. Currently, he is co-chairman of the Sun New Energy Conference.
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 the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie in Montpellier. 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 ENSCM.
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 Mario organizes the prestigeous Seminar "Marcello Carapezza".
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