Gianfranco Pacchioni#
| Membership Number: | 3310 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mater.unimib.it/utenti/pacchioni |
Present and Previous Positions
- Appointments:
- 2000-now Full Professor, Department of Material Science, University of Milano-Bicocca
- 1988-1999 Associate Professor, Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Milano
- 1984-1987 Assistant Professor Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Milano
- 1981-1984 Research contract, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, FU Berlin, West Germany
- 1979-1980 Italian CNR fellowship;
- Visiting scientist and visiting Professor:
- 1993 Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, TU München, Germany (Humboldt fellow)
- 1987 Post-doc fellow, IBM Almaden Research Center
Fields of Scholarship
- Theory of surfaces and material science
- Defects in oxides and their spectroscopic properties
- Small metal clusters and nanoparticles supported on oxide surfaces, their chemical activity, diffusion and nucleation processes, catalytic properties
- Oxide ultrathin films on metals
- Semiconducting oxides for photocatalysis
- Analysis and interpretation of optical, vibrational, and magnetic resonances spectroscopies
Honours and Awards
- 1993 Alexander von Humboldt fellow
- 1994 Gold Medal "Raffaello Nasini", Italian Chemical Society
- 1996 National Price “Federchimica”
- 1998-1999 Professor Visitant Invitat, University of Barcelona
- 2005 Humboldt Research Award
- 2009 Member of European Academy of Sciences
