Titolo di studio

Degree in Chemical Engineering

PhD Technology of New Materials

PhD Architecture of Mobility Systems

Dottorato di ricerca

Curriculum

Maurizio Volpe PhD (Orcid ID 0000-0002-4244-2961;

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C-8552-2018) is appointed, since   1st June 2024, as Associate Professor  in the Disciplinari Scientific Group 09/IIND-07 -  and Disciplinary Scientific Sector  (SSD) IIND-07/B - Environmetal Technical Physics at University of Enna, Kore.

Prof.

Volpe, since October 2023 is responsible for WP1 (Work Package Energy) in the framework of Samothrace ("SiciliAn MicronanOTecH Research And Innovation Center -project (MUR, PNRR-M4C2, ECS_00000022).

He is the co-author of more than 65 international, Scopus and/or WOS  indexed, publications with a total of more than 2,300 citations.

In 2020, he obtained the national qualification as an associate professor for the sector of Environmental Technical Physics In the period of 01 June 2029 and 30th May 2024 Prof.

Volpe has been appointed as lecturer, in the framework of the National Operational Plan, International Attraction Mobility  (PON – AIM), at the University of Enna, Kore (Italy) , being responsible for the research entitled “Biofuels via REsiduAls Thermoreactions” (BREATH). .

Between June and July 2018, he was appointed as visiting researcher, within the BRISK 2 project, (Biofuel Research Infrastructure ", at the University of Karlsruhe – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) – Germany.

During this period he carried out part of the research project for the hydrothermal conversion of residual biomass at high temperature and pressure (400 ° C - 200 bar) with the reaction system called “PAUL”.

In the period August 2015-March 2019, he was a research fellow at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering (DICAM), University of Trento, Trento (Italy) for the development of research projects aimed at recovering energy and materials from waste products, he was responsible for the project titled:

“High-pressure fluid and biomass conversion technologies”.

From October 2017 to this day he is a co-founder and holds the role of Process Engineer and product development manager of the Innovative Start-up CARBOREM srl, based in piazza Manifattura 1, Rovereto (TN).

The Start-up proposes itself as a leader in the technology of hydrothermal conversion of residual biomass (in particular civil and agro-industrial sludge) for the production of biofuels and/or soil improvers.

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In October 2017 he was appointed as visiting researcher at the University of Boston (MA) - USA - Division of Materials Science & Engineering, Boston University (BU), Boston MA 02215 USA.

In collaboration with Prof.

Jillian Goldfarb at BU, he carried out experimental tests for the enhancement of residual biomasses through wet thermochemical processes (HTC), and tests for the characterization of the HTC reaction residues using ICP-OS, TGA, GC-MS instrumental techniques.

Between October 2004 and June 2005 he was appointed as visiting Post-Doc at the "Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry - University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) - California USA" during which he carried out the research of high industrial importance entitled "Laser flash photolysis study of the iridium Catalyzed CO migratory insertion for the production of acetic acid:

the CativaTM process.

He got his first PhD in 2003 at the University of Palermo (Italy) developing research dealing with the development of a homogeneous catalyst for the water gas shift reaction (WGSR), in 2015 he got a second PhD at the University of Enna, Kore (Italy) carrying out a study dealing with pyrolysis and gasification of waste biomasses.

In April 1998 he got a degree, with a grade of 110/110 cum laude, in Chemical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Palermo. 

Settore concorsuale

09/IIND-07

Settore scientifico-disciplinare

IIND-07/B

Aree di interesse scientifico

Biomass energy valorizationTermochemical processesCarbon neutralityEnvironmental Engineering

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