Gaetano Granozzi is full professor of Full professor at University of Padova of Inorganic Chemistry since 1990, teaching courses of Inorganic Chemistry of Materials and Catalysis and Surface Chemistry. He has been Director of the PhD Corse in Science and Engineering of Materials and Nanostructures of the University of Padova from 2005 to 2016. He is the leader of the Surface Science and Catalysis Group (SSCG) of the Department of Chemical Science of the University of Padova (http://www.chimica.unipd.it/surfacescience/).
Research interests are in the areas of materials’ chemistry, with particular emphasis of heterogeneous catalysis and surface chemistry. He is author of over 30 scientific publications.

Date of birth: 27th November 1951

EDUCATION
1975 "Laurea" degree (5 years) “cum Laude” in Chemistry at the Univ. of Padova (Italy).

CURRENT POSITION(S)
1990 – today Full professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Padova, Italy.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS
1980 – 1990 Associate professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Univ. Padova, Italy.
1977 – 1980 Assistant Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Univ. Padova, Italy.

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
Editor in Chief of the Journal "Surfaces" (Open access, MDPI)
Member of the Editorial Board of Surface Science
Associate Editor of Current Catalysis
Guest editor of the Special Issue of Surface Science on : Graphene and Graphene Related Materials Growth on Surfaces


ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS (selection, chairperson)
Chairman of the first bilateral Italy-China Workshop: Second generation graphene: opportunities and challenges Dalian (China) 20-21 September 2014
Chairman of the second bilateral Italy-China Workshop: Graphene and related 2D Materials Genova 23-24 Avril 2016
Members of the Scientific Advisory Board of many international conferences

Activity in European projects
VI Framework having the following focus: GSOMEN (Growth and supra-organization of transition and noble metal nanoclusters) and NanoChemSens (Nanostructures for chemical sensors).
VII Framework: two projects in the field of fuel cells, both starting in January 2013
-NMP.2012.1.1-: European Coordinator of Direct ElectroChemical Oxidation Reaction of Ethanol: optimization of the catalyst/support assembly for high temperature operation (DECORE)
-FCH-JU-2011-1: University of Padova local coordinator of Novel catalyst materials for the cathode side of MEAs suitable for transportation applications (CathCat)
H2020: one European project
-H2020-JTI-FCH-2017-779366: University of Padova local coordination (G. Granozzi) of CRESCENDO: Critical Raw material ElectrocatalystS replacement ENabling Designed pOst-2020 PEMFC (started on 1th January 2018)

BIBLIOMETRIC DATA
- Google Scholar: h-index = 39 (23 from 2013), Citations = 6841
- WoS (from 1985): h-index 33; 5019, (partial coverage)
- Scopus: h-index 36, 6019 citations