Vladimiro Dal Santo

Development of active materials in catalytic, photocatalytic and photoelectrocatalytic processes for the sustainable production of hydrogen (energy carrier) starting from secondary raw materials deriving from biomass and, in the case of photo- and photoelectric-catalytic processes, also using renewable energy sources (sunlight / visible).
The focus is on reducing the content of critical raw materials, for example by decreasing the content of noble metals, while guaranteeing high performance in terms of activity / selectivity / stability in the case of heterogeneous catalysts for reforming, or using systems based on iron, such as hematite photoelectrodes, for photoelectrochemical water splitting active in sunlight.
The ongoing activities mainly concern the development of heterogeneous bimetallic catalysts for the steam reforming of biomethane

2019 -, Senior Researcher at Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche “G. Natta” (until 2019 Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Molecolari)
2001 – 2018 Researcher at Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Molecolari (until 2002 Centro di Studi sulla Sintesi e la Struttura dei Composti dei Metalli di Transizione nei Bassi Stati di Ossidazione)
2002 PhD in Chemical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano.
1997 Degree (MSc) in Chemistry, 110/110, Università degli Studi di Milano