Dr. Leonarda Francesca Liotta, Institute of Nanostructured Materials, Palermo Research Division, CNR - ISMN, Italy

Dr. Leonarda Francesca Liotta is Director of Research at the CNR-Institute for the Study of Nanostructured Materials (ISMN) and works in the team Materials and technologies for environmental sustainability and energy efficiency. In 2013 and then in 2017 she gained Qualification as a full professor in Fundamentals of Chemical Science and Inorganic Systems. Dr Liotta is ranking in the World's Top 2% Scientists, she has (H index 42), is co-author of more than 200 articles/chapters published in international journals and books and she contributed to more the 300 International and National Conferences and informative works. Dr. Liotta has been invited Professor at the University Claude Bernard, Lyon 1, in 2014 and 2018; Invited Professor at Lille University in 2016 and Invited Professor at Dunkirk University, France in 2019. She coordinates several International and National Projects, she is responsible for the scientific part of the Memorandum of Understanding signed with Tomsk State University, Russia and with Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China and she is the scientific coordinator of PhD exchange program financed by the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC). She is a Member of the International Association of Catalysis Societies (IACS), a member of the Management Committee of COST Action 17136 “Indoor Air Pollution network” and of COST Action 18224 “Green Chemical Engineering Network towards upscaling sustainable processes”. Dr. Liotta is Editor in chief of the Section “Catalytic Materials”, Catalysts MDPI and Guest Editors of several special issues in Catalysts.

Dr. Valeria La Parola, Institute of Nanostructured Materials, Palermo Research Division, CNR - ISMN, Italy

Dr. Valeria La Parola is researcher at the CNR-Institute for the Study of Nanostructured Materials (ISMN) and works in the team of Materials and technologies for environmental sustainability and energy efficiency. She is co-author of more than 90 papers, co-inventor of an international patent and has an H index of 30. She is involved in several national and international projects on environmental catalysis, preparation of active materials and has numerous international collaborations. Her research interests are focused on the developing of catalysts for environmental reactions with particular attention to methane reforming reactions and carbon dioxide utilization.

Dr. Sónia Carabineiro, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal

Sónia Carabineiro graduated in Applied Chemistry at the New University of Lisbon, Portugal and obtained her PhD degree in Chemical Engineering (Catalysis) in 2001 at the same University. She was Post Doctoral Researcher from 2001 to 2003 at Leiden University, The Netherlands and from 2004 to 2007 at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. From 2007 to 2013 she was Assistant Researcher at the University of Porto, Portugal, and Principal Researcher from 2013 to 2018. In 2019 she was an Invited (Visiting) Professor in the Wuhan Textile University, China and an Integrated Researcher at the University of Lisbon. She obtained Habilitation in Chemistry at the same University. In 2020 she became an Assistant Professor at the New University of Lisbon. She is (co-)author of more than 20 chapters in books, more than 160 articles in international scientific journals, more than 200 communications to national and international conferences, and more than 15 invited talks. She is co-inventor of 1 worldwide patent, evaluator of several international project proposals (including European Research Council grants). She has more than 4800 citations and an h index of 39 (Web of Science). She is a regular referee of several international journals, including ChemCatChem being currently one of the top female reviewers in the world (Publons Clarivate). She is also a member of the Editorial and Reviewer Boards of several journals. Recently, she was including in a list of the top 2% most cited scientists in the world published by Stanford University. Her research interests deal with catalysts by gold nanoparticles, single and mixed metal oxides, nanostructured carbon materials (including carbon nanotubes and graphene), heterogenization of homogenous complexes, gas and liquid phase oxidations, and environmental catalysis.

Dr. Francesca Deganello, Institute of Nanostructured Materials, Palermo Research Division, CNR - ISMN, Italy

Dr. Francesca Deganello is a researcher at CNR-ISMN Palermo (Italy) since 2001. In March 1996 she got the Chemistry degree at the Università degli Studi di Palermo and in February 2002 she obtained her PhD certificate in Chemical Sciences at the same University. She is involved in several national and international projects on the preparation and characterization of sustainable nanomaterials, especially mixed oxides with perovskite-type structure for solid oxide fuel cells operating at intermediate temperatures, for metal-air batteries, and for the degradation of pollutants in the air and in industrial wastewater. In particular, she is responsible for the ISMN unit for the Eurostars project “NanoPerWater: Fabrication of a novel Water filtration membrane based on NanoPerovskite for abatement of CECs“, where she coordinates the synthesis of the catalytic perovskite-type powders. Among the preparation methodologies, she mainly uses solution combustion synthesis with sustainable precursors. Dr. Deganello is the author of 37 peer-reviewed scientific publications, 10 structures in the ICDD database, and about 60 oral, poster communications and invited presentations. Dr. Deganello is a reviewer for materials-related journals and is a topic editor for Sustainable Chemistry (MDPI). She is also involved in outreach activities for schools and the public.

Speaker/Presentation

Time in CET

Dr. Leonarda Francesca Liotta & Dr. Valeria La Parola

Chair Introduction

11:00 – 11:05 am

Dr. Sónia Carabineiro

Catalysis by Gold

11:05 – 11:35 am

Dr. Francesca Deganello

Design of Waste-Derived Inorganic Catalysts by Solution Combustion Synthesis

11:35 am – 12:05 pm

Q&A Session

12:05 – 12:25 pm

Closing of Webinar
Dr. Leonarda Francesca Liotta & Dr. Valeria La Parola

12:25 – 12:30 pm