Prof. Dr Stefano Agnoli
Current Position:
Associate professor of the Chemical Science Department of the University of Padova since May 2015, teaching courses on Solid state Chemistry, Materials Science and Nanoscience in the Materials Science undergraduate school and in the PhD Course in Science and Engineering of Materials and Nanostructures at the University of Padova
Projects
• Local coordinator of the Italian national program FIRB GIOVANI 2012 “Beyond graphene: tailored carbon layers for catalysis and sustainable chemistry” (http://www.beyond-graphene.mater.unimib.it)
• WorkPackage Leader of the European project DECORE (Direct ElectroChemical Oxidation Reaction of Ethanol: optimization of the catalyst/support assembly for high temperature operation, http://decore.eucoord.com/)
• Principal investigator of the project funded by the University of Padova "Study of the catalytic activity of complex graphene nanoarchitectures from ideal to real conditions"
• Member of scientific staff of several Italian national projects (PRIN2007, PRIN2009, FIRB (nanostructured oxides for energy environment and) and international EU funded projects devoted to nanoscience investigations, (GSOMEN (Growth and Supra-Organization of Transition and Noble Metal Nanoclusters) NanoChemSens (Nanostructures for Chemical Sensors)) and to the problems connected to energy sustainability, (CathCat)
• Scientific leader of the project "A rational approach to the optimisation of cheap electrocatalysts for next generation fuel cells" funded by Cariparo foundation within "Dottorati di Ricerca 2011"
Awards
Nasini Medal 2015 of the Italian Chemical Society, Inorganic Division
Associate professor of the Chemical Science Department of the University of Padova since May 2015, teaching courses on Solid state Chemistry, Materials Science and Nanoscience in the Materials Science undergraduate school and in the PhD Course in Science and Engineering of Materials and Nanostructures at the University of Padova
Projects
• Local coordinator of the Italian national program FIRB GIOVANI 2012 “Beyond graphene: tailored carbon layers for catalysis and sustainable chemistry” (http://www.beyond-graphene.mater.unimib.it)
• WorkPackage Leader of the European project DECORE (Direct ElectroChemical Oxidation Reaction of Ethanol: optimization of the catalyst/support assembly for high temperature operation, http://decore.eucoord.com/)
• Principal investigator of the project funded by the University of Padova "Study of the catalytic activity of complex graphene nanoarchitectures from ideal to real conditions"
• Member of scientific staff of several Italian national projects (PRIN2007, PRIN2009, FIRB (nanostructured oxides for energy environment and) and international EU funded projects devoted to nanoscience investigations, (GSOMEN (Growth and Supra-Organization of Transition and Noble Metal Nanoclusters) NanoChemSens (Nanostructures for Chemical Sensors)) and to the problems connected to energy sustainability, (CathCat)
• Scientific leader of the project "A rational approach to the optimisation of cheap electrocatalysts for next generation fuel cells" funded by Cariparo foundation within "Dottorati di Ricerca 2011"
Awards
Nasini Medal 2015 of the Italian Chemical Society, Inorganic Division
Associate Professor
Office: DISC, room 00215 01 055
Tel. 0039 0498275122
e-mail: stefano.agnoli@unipd.it
Tel. 0039 0498275122
e-mail: stefano.agnoli@unipd.it
He graduated in Materials Science in 2002 at the University of Padova, with the thesis “"Oxide-on-oxide nanostructured ultrathin films: a local probe approach", carried out at the Karl Franzens University of Graz (Austria) under the supervision of prof. Gaetano Granozzi and prof. Falko P. Netzer. He was awarded a European PhD (Doctor Europaeus) in Materials Science in 2006, working on the study of ultrathin oxide films supported on metal single crystals, using different electron based techniques (XPS, PED, LEED, LEEM) combined with scanning tunnelling microscopy.
After working as a post doc researcher at the University of Padova, in 2009 he moved to Brookhaven national Lab (Upton NY USA), where he joined the catalysis group of Dr J.A. Rodriguez and studied real and model systems based on ceria and their application in the catalytic production of hydrogen.
In 2010 he obtained the position of assistant professor and later in 2015, of associate professor at the department of chemical sciences of the University of Padova. Here, his continued the study of model and real systems for catalytic applications expanding his research interest toward complex mixed oxide systems (core@shell nanoparticles, ternary oxides), new two dimensional materials (graphene based materials and transition metal dichalcogenides) and electrocatalytic processes (oxygen reduction reaction and hydrogen evolution reaction).
After working as a post doc researcher at the University of Padova, in 2009 he moved to Brookhaven national Lab (Upton NY USA), where he joined the catalysis group of Dr J.A. Rodriguez and studied real and model systems based on ceria and their application in the catalytic production of hydrogen.
In 2010 he obtained the position of assistant professor and later in 2015, of associate professor at the department of chemical sciences of the University of Padova. Here, his continued the study of model and real systems for catalytic applications expanding his research interest toward complex mixed oxide systems (core@shell nanoparticles, ternary oxides), new two dimensional materials (graphene based materials and transition metal dichalcogenides) and electrocatalytic processes (oxygen reduction reaction and hydrogen evolution reaction).
