Paola Stagnaro

Research activity started focusing on novel synthetic routes for aromatic and heterocyclic chemistry. Acquired expertise has been and still is exploited for synthesis and study of novel monomers and polymers from polycondensation (thermotropic LC polyesters, thiophene-based conjugated polymers), stereospecific polyaddition (substituted polyacetylenes, olefin copolymers) and radical processes (acrylate-based networks, inverse vulcanized systems). Major activity is devoted to formulation and development of new multicomponent polymer-based materials (blends, micro/nanocomposites) by melt blending. Processing, functionalization and surface modification are used to optimize performances and gain information on process-structure-morphology-properties correlations. Over years polymer materials have been developed for food packaging, up-cycling of agro-food wastes, automotive and shipbuilding, biomedicals, energy harvesting and storage, photonics (addressing safety, health, ecosustainability).

1989, Degree in Chemistry, Magna cum Laude. 1993, Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences. 1995-1997, Post-Doc, University of Genoa. 1998 to date, Researcher at CNR (IMAG to 2001, ISMAC to Sep. 2019, SCITEC to date). Mar. 2008 to date, Responsible for the Institute Genoa Section. 2009-2016, Member of the Council of ISMAC. 2011-2016, Executive Committee of the Italian Association of Science and Technology of Macromolecules (AIM). Experience abroad: May-Jun. 1997 and Apr.-May 1999, Polytechnic of Grenoble; Oct. 2005, University of Manchester; Jul. 2007 and Oct. 2012, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry.