Biography

Paolo Fornasiero was born in 1968 in Ruti (Switzerland). In 1992 he obtained the degree in Chemistry and in 1997 the PhD in heterogeneous catalysis both at the University of Trieste (Italy). After one year as post-doctoral fellow at the Catalysis Research Center of the University of Reading (U.K.), in 1998 he was appointed Assistant Professor, in 2006 associate professor and in 2016 Full Professor in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Trieste.
Professor Fornasiero is Associate Researcher of the National Council of Research (CNR) and from 2008 he is the scientific responsible of the CNR Research Unit associated with the Institute of Chemistry of OrganoMetallic Compounds (ICCOM) of Florence and located at the University of Trieste - Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
From February 2021 he served as Executive Editor of ACS catalysis.
From February 2015 to February 2021 he served as Associate Editor of ACS catalysis.

HONORS
2022 Member of the Academia Europaea
2022 Malatesta Medal in Inorganic Chemistry (Italian Chemical Society – Inorganic Division)
2021 Member of the European Academy of Sciences
2018 Maria Teresa Messori Roncaglia and Eugenio Mari Award (Accademia dei Lincei)
2018 Visiting Scientist Fellowship (Chinese Academy of Science).
2017 Edoardo Kramer award (Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere)
2017 Rudolf Zahradník Lecture (Czech Republic)
2016 IACS Heinz Heinemann Award in Catalysis (International Association of Catalysis Societies)
2013 Chiusoli Gold Medal in Catalysis (Italian Chemical Society – Industrial Chemistry Division)
2005 Nasini Gold Medal in Inorganic Chemistry (Italian Chemical Society – Inorganic Division)
1995 Giuseppe Stampacchia award for first publication
1995 Risaliti Award for Master Degree thesis in Chemistry