Gabriele Centi is full professor of Industrial Chemistry at the University of Messina, Italy, and President of the European Research Institute of Catalysis (ERIC). Research interests are in the areas of applied heterogeneous catalysis, sustainable energy and chemical processes, biomass conversion and environment protection.
He was coordinator of the EU Network of Excellence IDECAT, and is actually President of IACS (International Association of Catalysis Societies) and vice-President of the InterUniversity Consortium on the Science and Technology of Materials (INSTM). He was coordinator or PI in over twenty EU projects, besides many other national and industrial projects. He recently started and coordinated an ERC Synergy grant on plasma-catalysis. He is also part of the board of the CSA ENERGY-X and SUN-ERGY. He received several awards, and is involved in various editorial activities, between which chairing the editorial board of ChemSusChem and be co-editor in chief of Journal of Energy Chemistry. He was chairperson of many international conferences, between which the last one Europacat 2017 in Florence and the 16th International Zeolite Conference joint with the 7th International Mesostructured Materials Symposium (Sorrento, Italy, 2010).
He is author of over 410 scientific publications plus about 130 contributions in books or extended proceedings, 12 books and about 20 as editor of special issues of journals. Current h-index is 81 with over 25.000 citations (Google Scholar).
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