Biography

Bibliometric parameters (October 2022):

h-index: 37 (Scopus)
overall number of citations: ca. 4350 (Scopus)
publications: 134 papers; 3 monographies; 4 book chapters; 20 patents (11 international)
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0165-5581
website: https://www.unimib.it/alessandro-abbotto

Education and training. MS degree in Chemistry from University of Milano 110/110 e lode (with honours) (1989). Ph.D. in Chemistry University of Milano (Prof. G. A. Pagani, 1993), NSF post-doctoral fellow at UC-Berkeley, CA (US) (Prof. A. Streitwieser, 1994-95), NATO fellow at the Univ. Erlangen-Nuernberg, Erlangen, D (Prof. P. v. R. Schelyer, 1995).

Professional experience. Assistant Professor at University of Milano (1995) and University of Milano-Bicocca (1998), Associate Professor at University of Milano-Bicocca (2001), Full Professor at University of Milano-Bicocca (since 2010) in Organic Chemistry and Materials for Renewable Energies.
Awards: DOW prize for the best student in Chemistry of the Univ. Milano (1990); CIMPIS Interuniversity Consortium Award "Innovation in Organic Synthesis" (2016); Prize "Montale Fuori di casa-section Percorsi" for dissmeination and research on hydrogen.
At the present he is a member of the Executive Board of the Division of Organic Chemistry of the Italian Chemical Society (since 2020) and President of the national committee for the Italian National Scientific Qualification to Associate and Full Professorship in organic Chemistry (since 2021)
Head of the Department of Materials Science (2018-21). Vice-President of the Performance Evaluation Group (Nucleo di Valutazione (2017-18); Co-founder and National Coordinator of the Interdivisional Group for Renewable Energy of the Italian Society of Chemistry (2012-18); Director of the Solar Energy Research Center MIB-SOLAR of the University of Milano-Bicocca (2013-17), Dean of the undergraduate programs in Chemistry of the University of Milano-Bicocca (2012-17), Deputy-Chairman of the Department of Materials Science (2015-17). Member of the International Advisory Board di EurJOC (Wiley), member of the Editorial Board of La Chimica e L'Industria, official journal of the Italian Chemical Society.

Grants and scientific interests. He has participated in the past 5 years to projects from MIUR-PRIN and private companies (ENI SpA). As chairman of the Department, he has coordinated in the period 2018-21 the Project “Electrical Power and Energy Vectors from Renewable Sources-Flexilab (MIUR-Department of Excellence).
Main current scientific interests include materials and devices for solar fuels and artificial photosynthesis (photogeneration of hydrogen from water splitting, reduction of CO2, and nitrogen fixation from low-cost abundant sources and sunlight) and photovoltaics (DSSC, perovskites, OPV).

Books and Dissemination activities. He has recently published two books for university students and the general public, “Hydrogen. The colours of energy” (Dedalo Ed., Bari, Italy, 2021) and “The electric mobility. History, technology and future” (Carocci Ed., Roma, Italy, 2022). In combination with these books, he has recently attended as an invited speaker many science and book festivals and events for the general public.