Salvatore Iannace

Salvatore Iannace graduated in Chemical Engineering (1988) and received his PhD (1994) from the University of Naples “Federico II”. He has been the Director of the “Istituto per lo Studio delle Macromolecole” (2015-2019, ISMAC-CNR) and is currently the Director of the “Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche “Giulio Natta” (SCITEC-CNR)
His principal research interests lie in the fields of biodegradable and sustainable multicomponent and multi-scale composite and foams with designed structural and functional properties. He has published more than 360 papers including 150 papers in international refereed journals, 1 book, 21 book chapters, 4 patents and delivered around 190 conference papers. (more than 6300 citations, Indice H=44, from Google Scholar).
Member of the editorial Board of “Journal of Cellular Plastics” and “Frontiers in Chemistry”. He chaired the international conferences on Biofoams in Italy (2007, 2011, 2015) and co-chaired the other editions in Canada (2009 and 2013) and China (2018). He has been invited as keynote and plenary speaker at several major international conferences for his pioneering works on the gas foaming behavior of biopolymers and their nanocomposites.
He has coordinated around 30 national and international research projects, most of them in collaboration with large companies and SMEs. He has served as referee for the evaluation of research and innovation projects for national and international public institutions.
It has been honored with several awards including the Nanochallenge and Polymerchallenge Grand Prize in 2007.