ROSSETTI ILENIA GIUSEPPINA

Prof. Ilenia Rossetti
Born in 1974, in 1998 she graduated summa cum laude in Industrial Chemistry at Università degli Studi di Milano and in 2001 she got a PhD in Industrial Chemistry, awarded by the same University. In 2016 she is got the Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano as second graduation, with 110/110 score.
She got a post-doc position (2002) at Dipartimento di Chimica Fisica ed Elettrochimica of Università degli Studi di Milano; in 2002, she became Junior Researcher at the Faculty of Sciences of the same University (scientific sector: Physical Chemistry), Senior Researcher since 2005. Since February 1st 2015 she is Associate Professor of Chemical Industrial Plants at the Dept of Chemistry of the University of Milano.
She has been responsible of research contracts on behalf of important industries, such as ENI, Itelcond, Garo, ACS Dobfar, Larioreti, BASF, Petrochem, Italcom and Clariant, and she collaborated within other less recent contracts (as primary scientist), e.g. with SAES GETTERS and Pirelli Labs. She was national coordinator of a research project granted by Regione Lombardia. She was member of national PRIN research projects since 2002. She has been selected for funding of the project “CO2photoconversion to fuels” by the University of Milano.
She is responsible of the National project "DeN – Innovative technologies for the abatement of N-containing pollutants in water", awarded with 240000 Euro by Cariplo Foundation (2016-2018).
She is responsible of the project “UP – Unconventional Photoreactors”,awarded with 55000 Euro by Cariplo Foundation (2017-2018).

She was invited professor c/o Universitè Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris (2016, Prof. S. Dzwigaj) and c/o the Cambridge university (2016, Dr. S. Stoddart).

She was awarded with the Chiusoli medal prize by the Italia Chemical Society in 2016 "For her multidisciplinary approach for the development of innovative Processes, especially for Hydrogen production and use".

She is in the editorial board of various journals and acted as guest editor for 5 special issues in journals with IF.
She was chair-woman of various congress sessions in national and International conferences. She was the Chairperson of the session "Catalysis for a Cleaner future" at Europacat2017.
She is afferent to the National Consortium for Materials Science and Technology (INSTM) and to the Centre for Nanostructured Materials and Interfaces (CIMAINA). She is associated to CNR-ISTM since 2009.
Her research interests are mainly focused on heterogeneous catalytic and photocatalytic processes and on the synthesis of nanostructured materials. Some of the topics studied are: a) ammonia synthesis and decomposition; b) catalytic flameless combustion of hydrocarbons; c) selective oxidation of aromatic compounds; d) ethylbenzene dehydrogenation to styrene; e) oxidative dehydrogenation of light alkanes to olefins; f) microporous materials for H2 storage; g) development of getters for water entrapment; h) kinetic modelling of the hydrocracking of long chain linear paraffins (C10, C16, C28, C36); i) flame pyrolysis synthesis of oxide nanomaterials; l) glycerol valorisation by selective oxidation in liquid phase. She is presently involved in a Departmental project for heat and power cogeneration with fuel cells, from second generation bioethanol.

She is presently investigating materials and processes for the photoproduction of H2, for the high pressure photoreduction of CO2 and for H2 production by photoreforming of organic waste compounds in water.

The results of her activity have been summarised in 21 chapters in books or invited reviews, 98 papers (plus 8 submitted) on international journals with high impact factor, more than 150 congress presentations and 5 invited lectures. She is co-author of the book “Fenomeni di trasporto”, printed in 2009 by an Italian Editor (Ed. Cortina). Her h-index is 30, with overall 2400 citations, 1800 without self-citations (Scopus, updated March 2018). She is referee for some important journals such as Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, Appl. Catal. A and B, J. Mater. Chem., Chem. Commun., Catal. Lett., Appl. Energy. She was also involved as projects evaluator by national and international agencies.

She has been teacher in charge of many courses at the Faculty of Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, lecturer and organiser of seminars for PhD students. Presently, she is teacher in charge of Chemical Plants, Industrial Physical Chemistry (also at University of Parma for the a.y. 2007-2008) and Renewable Energy Sources. She has been assistant teacher of various Laboratory courses of Physical Chemistry and Chemical Plants. She was co-tutor of 3 PhD theses (one of which, on the development of the flame-pyrolysis apparatus, won the 2007 edition of the ENI Award for the best PhD thesis) and tutor or co-tutor of ca. 50 graduating students (Bachelor and Master degrees in Chemistry or Industrial Chemistry). She is/has been tutor of 3 PhD students in Industrial Chemistry and 1 in Chemical Science. One of these PhD grants, for foreign students, has been awarded in the framework of an international collaboration with the Mendeleev Institute for Chemical Technology of Russia (Moscow), while the latter is attributed to a Panamian citizen. She has wide national and international collaborations, e.g. with Prof. S. Dzwigaj (Universitee Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris), Dr. S. Stoddard (Univ. Cambridge), prof. Mahinpey (Univ. Calgary, Canada) and Dr. N. Dimitratos (Cardiff Univ.). She is presently responsible of a research agreement with the University of Cambridge (UK) and one with the University of Calgary (Canada).
She is member of various organising and steering committees for her Department. She has been elected as representative of the Industrial Chemistry Division in the board of the Younger Chemists Group of the Italian Chemical Society (2007-2009) and she has been part of the board of the same Division (2010-2012, 2013-2015). She is presently part of the board of the Interdivisional Group on Renewable energies (ENERCHEM) (2016-18).