Full Time Staff

Prof. Michele Modesti

Full Professor in Industrial and technological chemistry (SSD ING-IND27) at the Engineering School of Padova University

Educational activity

• Industrial chemical Processes II (Chemical Engineering, 2nd level, MS degree)

Main Research Topics

His research work is focused mainly on the field concerning polymer-based materials and processes, with special emphasis on the following areas of research:

• Chemical  recycling of thermosetting polymers
• Thermal degradation and flame reaction of polymer systems.
• Polymer nanocomposites
• Multistructured membranes based on nanofiber and nanoparticles

Membership and Appointment

He is a member of the PhD committee and he has supervised several PhD thesis. He has been the president of Italian section of SPE (Society of Plastics Engineers) in the period 2012-2018 and he is actually member of the board; he is a member of AIDIC (Associazione Italiana di Ingegneria Chimica) and GRICU (Gruppo Ingegneria Chimica dell’università), where he was national secretary in the years 2005-2006. He was involved in a research cooperation programme with Poland, funded by Italian Foreign Office, in the years 1998-2003; during this cooperation several common papers were published and several conferences were lectured at technical university of Cracow. He was visiting professor at UCLA University (Los Angeles California) where he began a collaboration with Prof. Y. Cohen. He is collaborating with Prof. Ulbricht Mathias, belonging to Institut für Technische Chemie II, University of Essen, Germany on membranes for micro- and nano-filtration. A collaboration with Prof. Seeram Ramakrishna, Dean, NUS Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore, on nanofibers via electrospinning was also established in 2007. During the academic year 2008-2009 he has been the director of a master course in Science and Technology of Polymeric Materials. He is reviewer of Polymer Engineering and Science, Polymer Degradation and Stability, European Polymer Journal, Journal of Polymer Engineering, Cellular Polymers and journal of Membrane Science and Materials Chemistry and Physics. Prof. Modesti is author of more than 100 works, including publications and speeches for conferences (about a half on international scientific journals with referees).

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Prof. Alessandra Lorenzetti

Associate Professor in Industrial and technological chemistry (SSD ING-IND27) at the Engineering School of Padova University

Educational activity

• Innovative Chemical Processes/Green Chemistry (Chemical Engineering, 2nd level, MS degree)
• Designing with polymer (Materials Engineering, 2nd level, MS degree)

Main Research Topics

Her research work deals with polymeric materials with special emphasis on the following area:

• Polymeric nanocomposites formulation, processing and application;
• Nanostructured membranes based on nanofibers (electrospinning and electrospraying);
• Thermal degradation and flame reaction of polymeric systems, search for new halogen-free flame retardants;
• Chemical and polymers from renewable or waste materials

Membership and Appointment

She is reviewer of Polymer Engineering and Science, Polymer Degradation and Stability, European Polymer Journal, Journal of Applied Polymer Science and Polymers for advanced Technologies. She is author of more than 100 works, including publications on international scientific journals with referee, book chapters and international conference presentations. She is a member of the PhD committee and SPE (Society of Plastics Engineers).

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Prof. Martina Roso

Associate Professor in Industrial and technological chemistry (SSD ING-IND27) at the Engineering School of Padova University

Educational activity

• Membrane separation processes (Chemical Engineering, 2nd level, MS degree)

Main Research Topics

Her research work deals with polymeric materials with special emphasis on the following area:

• Nanostructured Media;
• Air purification: PCO processes for VOCs abatement, Technologies and implemented strategies for enhanhing the photocatalytic performance, CO2 capture;
• DoE (RSM, Process optimization);
• Functional materials (Magnesium borate, Silicon oxycarbide ceramics)
• Electrospun scaffolds for biomedical applications
• High performance nanocomposites (both thermoplastic and thermoset)s
• Polymers fire behaviour and thermal resistance s

Membership and Appointment

She is reviewer of Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Polymer Degradation and Stability, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Composite Science and technology. She is author of more 78 memories among others, 1 book chapter (RAPRA Publisher), 4 chapters on “Encyclopedia of Membranes (Ed. Springer)”, 1 chapter on Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (American Scientific Publishers), 32 papers on scientific journals and communications at international and national conferences; she is also supervisor of several final year projects for Master degree carried out at DII. Since 2014 she is a member of SPE (Society of Plastics Engineers).

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