Full Professor in Inorganic Chemistry and in Industrial Chemistry

The scientific interests of Professor Fornasiero are in the field of material chemistry, with attention to the design and development of multi-functional metal-oxide nanosystems for their advanced applications in energy related material science and environmental heterogeneous catalysis. Significant Professional Activities Director of the CNR Research Unit associated with the Institute of Chemistry of OrganoMetallic Compounds (ICCOM) of Florence and located at the University of Trieste, 2008- Member of the Scientific Council of the Consortium for Science and Technology of Materials. 2016- Co Chairman - Fundamentals and catalytic applications of cerium dioxide, Udine (Italy), July 2014 Co- organizer - 8th International Conference on f-Elements, Udine (Italy), August 2012 Co-organizer - Slovenian-Italian Conference on Materials and Technologies for Sustainable Growth, Nova Gorica (Slovenia), May 2011. Co- organizer - VIII Congresso Nazionale della Divisione di Chimica Inorganica della Società Chimica Italiana, Trieste (Italy), September 2010. Co- organizer - 4th Korea-Italy Inorganic Chemistry Symposium, Malcesine, Verona (Italy), September 2006. Co- organizer 6th Italian Seminar on Catalysis, Fundamentals and applications to environmental problems, Grado (Italy), June 2001. Co- organizer CEZIRENCAT Summer School, Trieste (Italy), August 1998. Co- organizer 2nd European – Japanese Meeting on DeNOx, Reading (U.K), March 1997. Co-guest Editor of Special Issue on “Morphological, Compositional, and Shape Control of Materials for Catalysis” – Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis; (2016) Co-guest Editor of Special Issue on “Catalysis by ceria” - Catalysis Today; (2015) Co- guest Editor of Special Issue on “Chemistry of Palladium” - ChemCatChem; (2015) Co-editor of the book " Catalysis by Ceria and related Materials, A. Trovarelli and P. Fornasiero Eds., Imperial College Press, London; (2013) Co-guest Editor of Special Issue on “Fundamental understanding of photocatalytic conversions on semiconductor surfaces” - Catalysis Today; (2013) Co-editor of the book "Renewable Resources and Renewable Energy: A Global Challenge, Second Edition, P. Fornasiero and M. Grazian Eds, CRC Press (Francis and Taylor), New York; (2011) Co-editor of the book "Renewable Resources and Renewable Energy: A Global Challenge, First Edition, P. Fornasiero and M. Grazian Eds, CRC Press (Francis and Taylor), New York (2006) .

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He received the B.Sc. in Physics from Peking University in 1982, the M. Sc. in Physics from Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1985 and the Ph.D. in Physics from Trinity College, University of Dublin, in 1990. He has been working in the field of rare-earth permanent magnets since 1982. He is currently the Vice Chairman of Beijing Zhong Ke San Huan High-tech Co. Ltd. which is the leading company on rare-earth permanent magnet materials in China. He is also the Chairman of the Magnetic Material Branch of the Association of China Rare Earth Industry.

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Field of interest Luminescence and scintillation materials, energy transfer and storage phenomena in scintillation mechanism, physics of defects, luminescence of excitons, nanoaggregates, quantum dots. Awards and evaluations: • The Prize of Czechoslovak Spectroscopic Society for young scientists in 1991 • The Prize of the AS CR for outstanding scientific results, 2003: „PbWO4 scintillator for high energy physics. Physical description and material optimisation“. • Praemium Academiae 2013, awarded by the President of Academy of Science of CR. Technological Agency 2015 – category “The most original project”

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Paul Attfield holds a Chair in Materials Science at Extreme Conditions at the School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh and he is the Director of the Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions. He received B.A. and D.Phil. degrees from Oxford University, and he was a Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Superconductivity at the University of Cambridge during 1991-2003. He received the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Meldola and Corday-Morgan medals and Peter Day award, and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2006 and of the Royal Society in 2014. Early research contributions included pioneering resonant X-ray scattering experiments of cation and valence ordering, and studies of disorder effects in functional oxides. Current research is centred on electronic and magnetic materials; a recent highlight was the solution of the 70-year old ‘Verwey’ problem of charge order in magnetite - the original magnetic material.

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Education 1981 – 1985 Ph.D Manchester University, UK; thesis with Dr. M. J. Ware 1978 - 1981 B.Sc. (Hons) Chemistry, Manchester University, UK. Research/professional experience 1999 – present University of Karlsruhe (TH), now KIT, Full Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, 1989 – 1999 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, Professor of Chemistry, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK 1988 - 1989 Lecturer, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK 1986 – 1988 Postdoc, University of Freiburg, Germany with Prof. Dr H. Vahrenkamp 1996 Ciba-Geigy Award Fellowship 2002 Elected Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry 2003 Visiting Professor, University of Otago (New Zealand) 2005 Visiting Professor, North-Eastern Normal University, Changchun, China 2007 onwards Visiting Professor, NIMS, Tsukuba, Japan 2010 Visiting Professor, University of Lyon 2010 – 2014 Julius von Haast Award Fellowship held at University of Otago, New Zealand 2011 Walker memorial Lecturer, Unversity of Edinburgh, U.K. 2012 Wilsmore Fellowship, University of Melbourne, Australia 2014 Seaborg Lectureship, UC Berkeley, U.S.A. 2014 – 2015 Walton Fellowship at University College Dublin, Ireland

Full Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan
 The President, The Rare Earth Society of Japan
 

Prof. Imanaka received his B.S. (1981), M.S. (1983) and Ph. D. (1986) in Applied Chemistry, Osaka University, Japan. He worked as Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University (June/1988 – May/2000), an Associate Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University (May/2000 – Mar/2003), and a Full Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University (Mar/2003 – present). The President of The Rare Earth Society of Japan, Executive Member of Japan Association of Chemical Sensors and Japan Society of Colour Material, a delegate of The Ceramic Society of Japan.