Massimo Guglielmi, Prof. University of Padova

Massimo holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Padova.  Since 2000 Massimo is a Professor of Materials Science and Technology.  His teaching activity focuses on the fields of Materials Science and Engineering of Ceramics. He has been a member of the Academic Senate of the University of Padova and is currently Head of the Department of Industrial Engineering at University of Padova. Massimo is also Chairman of the Technical Committee 12 “Pharma Packaging” of the International Commission on Glass. His main topics of research have been surface phenomena in glasses due to chemically or physically induced modifications; synthesis of glasses and ceramics by chemical routes through sol-gel method, their characterization and application; deposition of thin inorganic coatings by the sol-gel method, their characterization and application. The research activity of the last years was aimed to exploit the possibility to apply the sol-gel techniques to the synthesis of nanocomposite and nanostructured materials.