Prof. Matteo Gigli

Description

Matteo Gigli joined the Ca’Foscari University of Venice in 2019 as tenure-track assistant professor. Since 2022 he holds a position as associate professor at the same University. MG completed his Ph.D. in 2013 at the University of Bologna working on the development of biobased and biodegradable polymeric systems. From 2013 to 2015 he worked as Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Freiburg (Germany) as a member of the BASF Joint Research Network on Advanced Materials and Systems (JONAS) and from 2016 to 2019 as Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. Among various experiences abroad, MG joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as visiting scholar in 2017 and 2018 and he was visiting researcher at the Advanced Materials & Systems Research Centre of BASF in Ludwigshafen (Germany) in 2011. He is author of 65 publications on peer-reviewed international journals of high impact in material science, 2 international patents and contributed with over 50 oral and poster presentations to national and international conferences. MG has been awarded in 2013 with the Future Leaders in Chemistry Prize by CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, and in 2014 with the PhD Best Thesis Award by the Italian Association of Chemistry for Engineering (AICIng). His research interests are mainly devoted to the development of innovative advanced materials, such as bioplastics and bio(nano)composites for environmental applications, biocompatible and biodegradable polymers, shape-memory materials and thermoplastic elastomers for biomedical applications, bio-based thermoplastics and thermosets of industrial interest, valorization of biomass residues for the generation of (nanostructured) advanced materials.