Pierangelo Metrangolo - Curriculum Vitae#

EDUCATION

• 2003 Specialization School in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (2 years)
  
• 2001 Ph.D. in Industrial Chem. & Chem. Eng. (3 years), Dept. Chem., Mater., & Chem. Eng. “Giulio Natta” (DCMCE), Politecnico di Milano (PoliMI), Italy
  
• 1997 Master Degree in Pharm. Chem. & Tech. (Laurea, 5 years), University of Milan, Italy

CURRENT POSITION

• 2011 – Full Professor of Chemistry Fundamentals of Technologies; DCMCE-PoliMI, Italy

AWARDS (main)

• 2025 Humboldt Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation, Germany
  
• 2025 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Tampere, Finland
  
• 2021 “Giorgio Modena” Medal 2021 of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI)
  
• 2019 Fluorous Technologies Award, ISoFT, Shanghai (CN), 9 August 2019
  
• 2013 – 2019 ERC grantee, StG2012 (Consolidator), project “FoldHalo” and Proof of Concept 2017, project “MINIRES”

ORGANISATION OF MEETINGS (main)

• 2024 Chairman of the XXVIII National Congress of the SCI, Milano, Italy, Sep. 2-6, 2024 (participants > 2500)
  
• 2019 Chairman of the 14th Int. Symp. on Macrocyclic and Supramol. Chem. (ISMSC2019), Lecce, Italy, June 9-13, 2019 (800 p.)
  
• 2015 Chairman of the 21st Int. Symp. on Fluorine Chemistry (ISFC) and 6th Int. Symp. of Fluorous Technologies (ISoFT), Como, Italy, Aug. 23-28, 2015 (600 p.)
  
• 2014 Chairman of the 1st International Symposium on Halogen Bonding (ISXB), Porto Cesareo, Lecce, Italy, June 18-22, 2014 (200 p.)

INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES (current, main)

• 2023 Rector’s Delegate for Sport Activities, PoliMI, Italy
  
• 2023 Member of the Sustainable Development and Impact Board of PoliMI, Italy
  
• 2023 Coordinator of the Sport & Wellbeing Workgroup, PoliMI, Italy
  
• 2023 - 2025 Member of the Regional Forum for Research and Innovation, Lombardy Region, Italy

MEMBERSHIPS OF EDITORIAL BOARDS

• 2017 - 2023 Chair of the Editorial Board of the RSC journal, CrystEngComm
  
• 2014 Co-editor of the IUCr journal, Acta Crystallographica: Section B
  
• 2014 Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the ACS journal, Cryst. Growth Des.
  
• 2018 Member of the Editorial Board of the Springer Nature journal, Scientific Reports
  

MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

• 2023 - 2025 Past-President of the Phys. & Biophys. Chem. Div. (I) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)
• 2022 - 2023 President of the Div. I of IUPAC
  
• 2020 - 2021 Vice-President and 2016 – 2019 and 2026 - 2028 Titular Member of the Div. I of IUPAC

BIBLIOMETRIC HIGHLIGHTS

My 297 publications have collected 28,879 cit. (h-index: 72), 25,129 cit. without self- (h-index: 62). I have 1 pubbl. at >3,500 cit., 2 at >1,800 cit., 1 at >1,500 cit., 1 over 1,300 cit. and 1 over 1000 cit. (Source: Scopus, January 18, 2026). According to WoS, I published 354 documents with 28,846 cit. (26,526 no self) (h-index: 69). In 36% of these publications, I’m Corresponding Author, in 13% First Author, and in 16% Last Author. For Google Scholar my h-index = 79 (35,859 cit.). I am also a co-author of 13 patent applications, 6 of which have been granted so far.