Francesco Parrino joins the University of Trento

Francesco Parrino, now a lecturer at the University of Trento, here portrayed at FineCat 2017

Trento, 20-Dec-2018. Dr Francesco Parrino is now a lecturer at the University of Trento.

Effective December 3, 2018, Dr Parrino has has joined the rankings of the Department of Industrial Engineering of the Italian University.

Born in Sicily in 1982, Dr Parrino graduated cum laude in chemical engineering in Palermo in 2005 . He holds a Ph.D .in inorganic chemistry in 2009 from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany).

back in Sicily he was a post-doc at the University of Palermo first with Professor Leonardo Palmisano, the world's renown photochemist, and lately with Claudio De Pasquale at the Agriculture Department of the same University. He recently won the selection for a lecturer position and joined Trento University.

He is co-authored a large body of research papers in photocatalysis published in leading chemistry and materials science journals including Chemical Communications, Angewandte Chemie and the Journal of Physical Chemistry.

In collaboration with the MPL, he has co-authored 8 publications, the last one being the chapter "Photocatalytic Waterborne Sol-Gel Coatings" due to appear in mid 2019 in the book Next Generation Waterborne Coatings (Elsevier, 2019) edited by Atul Tiwari, Mark D. Soucek and Peter Zarras.

"Dr Parrino is one of the brightest young researchers in chemistry and chemical engineering in Italy" commented Dr Pagliaro. "He is also a committed chemical educator.I congratulate the University of Trento for hiring Francesco: he whill shortly become one of the key scholars of this young and already prestigious university".

The Department of Industrial Engineering carries out research and educational activities in Mechanics, Mechatronics, Materials Engineering, Electronic-and Micro-electronics systems, Managerial Information Systems and Optimization Methods and Models to support decision making.

In materials sciencce and engineerring, the Department's researchers develop and study new advanced materials for numerous different applications including energy production and storage.