Piero Baglioni#
| Membership Number: | 5799 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.csgi.unifi.it/index.php?option=com_jresearch&view=member&task=show&id=28&Itemid=4#menu |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1312-8700 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004 - present MIT affiliate, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT, Cambridge
- 2001 - 2002 Visiting Professor/Research Fellow, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, Prof. S.-H. Chen
- 1994 - present Full Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Florence
- 1994 Visiting professor, College de France, Paris
- 1990 Visiting Professor, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
- 1991 - 1994 Associate Professor of Physical-Chemistry atFlorence (1993 - 1994), Italy
- 1987 - 1991 Associate Professor of Physical-Chemistry at the University of Udine
- 1987 - 1989 Visiting scientist/professor at the Dept. of Chemistry, University of Houston, USA
- 1986 Postdoc at the Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, USA
- 1981 - 1986 Researcher at the Department of Chemistry, University of Florence
Fields of Scholarship
- Gels, hydrogels and organogels
- Soft condensed matter
- Physical chemistry of materials, surfaces and interfaces
- Colloids and interfaces
- Conservation of the cultural heritage
- Complex fluids dynamics
- Scattering radiation, neutron scattering X-ray scattering
- Molecular nanoscience and materials chemistry
Honours and Awards
- Major prizes:
- 2017 Lectureship award of the division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry, The Chemical Society of Japan
- 2016 Overbeek Medal, European Colloids and Interface Society
- 2016 Bonino Medal, Italian Chemical Society
- 2016 Chen Distinguished Lectureship on Neutron Science and Technology, Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology, National Tsing Hua University
- 2012 Catedra de Fisica, University of San Luis Potosi, Mexico
- 2011 Lifetime achievements for the contribution to Colloids and Interface Science (JCIS)
- 2010 Caballero Aguila (The most prestigious recognition from National agency for conservation (Mexico)
- 2004 Gran Prix for Innovation Award
- 2002 Rhodia Prize, European Colloids and Interface Society (ECIS)
- Academies membership:
- European Academy of Science; Royal Academy of Art and Science in Göteborg, Sweden; Accademia delle Arti del Disegno (the oldest Academy in Italy)
