He is one of the two
Highly Ranked
Scholars, prior five years, affiliated with Italy's CNR.
Besides ranking in the
top 2% World Ranking list of Scientists
in all fields of science. Dr Pagliaro also ranks within the
Top Italian Scientists in material
and nano sciences. In 2020, he was found
2nd amid the world's top 10 bioeconomy
scholars.
Developed in co-operation with leading researchers based in more
than 20 countries, his Group's research is reported in over 380
frequently
cited research papers, 41 of which featuring on the
cover of journals such as
Materials Advances, ChemSusChem,
Nanoscale,
Catalysis Science & Technology
and
Chemical Communications.
He has authored or co-authored 22
books some of which have become the
reference in their field.
New materials and new processes
“IntegroPectin”, "CuproGraf", “NiGraf”, “CytroCell”, “GrafeoPlad”,
“CytroCav”, “AquaSun”, “SiliOrange”, “AnchoisOil”, “Omeg@Silica”,
“LimoFish” “AnchoisFert”, “SiliaSun”, “TitaniaSun”, “HyTan”, and
“GreenCaps” are some of the
names created by Dr Pagliaro
to identify
new functional materials and
new enabling
technologies jointly developed by his Lab,
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. In 2005 he was appointed “Maître de
conférences associé”at Montpellier’s Ecole Nationale Superieure de
Chimie.
Themed issues guest edited
Conferences and Seminars organized
On August 2022 he co-chaired along with Professor Yun Hang Hu, the
first
USA-Europe ACS Symposium on Energy organized by the ACS
Division of Energy and Fuels in Chicago.
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.
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 2004 and 2017, he organized the prestigious
Seminar
"Marcello Carapezza" whose 2011 edition was hosted by
Italy’s Parliament.
Invited lectures
2-Sep-2024, "
Reshoring fine chemical
and pharmaceutical productions", First Symposium on New
Technologies for the Synthesis and Application of Biomass Based
Fine Chemicals, Xi'an, China.
1-Jul-2024, "
NiGraf: A new Class of
Ni-based electrocatalysts for enhanced alkaline water
electrolysis", HyCeltec 2024, Milazzo, Italy.
5 Jun2023, "
Natural product
extraction via hydrodynamic cavitation", Università di
MIlano, Milan, Italy.
23-Nov-2022, "
Europe’s chronic lack of
investment in new energy technologies - How it started and what
to do now", Master in Entrepreneurship and Management,
University of Palermo, Italy.
12-Sept-202, "
Enhanced Omega-3 Dietary
Supplements from Sustainably Sourced Fish Oil", 11th
Probiotics, Prebiotics & New Foods, Rome, Italy.
7-Sept-2021, "
IntegroPectin: Una nuova
pectina di Citrus con più elevata e vasta attività biologica",
AicIng 2021, Reggio Calabria, Italy.
4-Sep-2020, "
Waterborne
photocatalytic sol-gel coatings", International Symposium on
Advanced Catalyst Design and Molecular Catalysis, Xi’an Jiaotong
University, China.
8-Jul-2020, "
New catalysts for real
chemical production from petrochemistry to drug for COVID-19",
SCAMT Workshop Week, ITMO University, St. Petersburg,
Russia.
29-Aug-2019, "
Sol-Gel Catalysts
for Synthetic Organic Chemistry: Milestones in 30 Years of
Successful Innovation", XX International Sol-Gel Conference,
St. Petersburg, Russia.
20-Mach-2018, "
Sol-Gel Nanochemistry
Enabling Solar Chemistry", Institute Charles Gerhardt
Montpellier, Francia.
9-Jun-2017, "
Chemistry
for the Bioeconomy: From Discussion to Action", Zelinsky
Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of the Sciences,
Moscow, Russia.
8-Jun-2017, "
Sol-Gel
Catalysts: Making Green Chemistry Possible", Zelinsky
Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of the Sciences,
Moscow, Russia.
23-May-2012, "
Raw Glycerol as a Suitable
Platform Chemical of the Biorefinery", 22nd Canadian
Symposium on Catalysis, Quebec City, Canada.
16-Nov-2012, "
Solar
Hydrogen: Fuel of the Future?", ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
22-Nov-2010, "
New
Commercial Products from Bioglycerol: Routes of Chemical
Ingenuity", 8th Eurofedlipid Congress, Munich, Germay.
12-Nov-2008, "
Glycerol: A New Platform
Chemical and Energy Vector", John van Geuns Lecture,
University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Student mentor, reviewer, journal board memberships
Dr Pagliaro 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.
He 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 for 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.
Dr Pagliaro is or has been a member of the Advisory or Editorial
Board of
Chemical Society
Reviews,
Energy Technology, Journal of
Physics: Energy, Energy Science & Engineering,
ChemistryOpen,
Sustainable Chemistry and
Pharmacy and
Chimica
Oggi/Chemistry Today,
ChemistrySelect, Molecules,
4Open, Silicon,
Green Technology,
Resilience and Sustainability, Coatings,
General Chemistry and
Letters in Organic Chemistry.
Community service scholarship
In 2015 (September-December) he was president of AMG Energia, a
company owned by the Municipality of Palermo.
Since 2016 he has been a member of the National Technical
Scientific Committee of
Legambiente, the largest Italian
environmental association.
In 2016 he presented to the Chamber the results of the first
conservative study on the energy transition of Italy based on
low-cost renewable energy technologies (photovoltaic, wind and
hydroelectric).
The results of his research group have also been used to formulate
important
parliamentary acts.
He collaborated in drafting the national bill "
Provisions
on social and economic development in the energy and production
transition to the bioeconomy" and the regional bill "
Measures
for the promotion of distributed generation in the territory of
the Sicilian Region".
He carries out extensive dissemination activities with frequent
public interventions at conferences and in the mass media.
Editorialist for
numerous newspapers and magazines, he has written for
Economia
& Management,
L'Impresa,
Linkiesta,
Europa,
Sapere,
Repubblica (edizione di Palermo), and
Quotidiano
di Sicilia. At the beginning of 2017 he was among the first
one hundred bloggers in the field of science, health and
innovation selected to write on
Blog
Italia, the new blog platform of the Agenzia Giornalistica
Italia.
Contact
E-mail: mario.pagliaro@cnr.it
Twitter:
@helionomics
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