Alessandro Fortunelli

Alessandro Fortunelli is Research Director at the National Research Council (CNR) in Pisa, Italy. He graduated in Chemistry in 1983 and received his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2012, both at Scuola Normale Superiore. He has been at CNR since 1984, was a visiting scientist at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA, 2001) and at Caltech (2002-2003), and is a visiting scientist at Caltech with Bill Goddard since 2012. He was involved with leadership positions in various national and EU research projects within FP6, FP7, H2020 and Horizon Europe programmes. He is co-author of more than 340 refereed publications and peer reviewer for 22 international journals. His research goal is a predictive computational science of structural, catalytic, magneto-optical, mechanical, and transport properties, with applications in the field of energy and environment.