Gianfranco Pacchioni
University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy
Biography
Gianfranco Pacchioni (born 1954) received his PhD at the Freie Universität Berlin in 1984. He worked at the IBM Almaden Research Center, the Technical University of Munich, and the University of Milano. Since 2000 he is Full Professor at the University of Milano Bicocca where he is presently Vice Rector for Research. He received various awards including the Humbold Preis (2005), and the Blaise Pascal Medal of the European Academy of Sciences (2016). He is member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the European Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europea. He has published 450 papers receiving more than 20000 citations (h-index ISI WoS 75) and given more than 350 lectures. His main interests are the electronic structure of oxides and their surfaces and interfaces, defects in oxides, supported metal clusters, and catalysis.
Abstract
Abstract : Oxides in catalysis: Role of reducibility from biomass conversion to CO oxidation