Michele Vittadello
The City University of New York, USA
Biography
Michele Vittadello has received his PhD in Chemical Sciences in 2003 from the University of Padua in Italy with Dr. Vito Di Noto. He spent two years (2003-2005) as a Post-doctoral Fellow in the lab of Dr. Steve Greenbaum at the City University of New York - Hunter College. He was a Post-doctoral Research Associate in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (2005-2008). While at Rutgers, he was awarded funding by the Rutgers Energy Institute (2007-2008). He is primarily interested in the investigation of fundamental physical-chemical properties of nanomaterial, biomaterials and materials with potential applications in the fields of energy storage/generation, biotechnology and radio-remediation. In the Fall of 2008, he joined the faculty at CUNY - Medgar Evers College as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the Fall 2015. He has held visiting positions at Rutgers University (Department of Chemistry) and Princeton University (Department of Chemistry). His work appeared in several articles published in international journals such as J Phys Chem, Macromol Chem and Phys, Electrochimica Acta, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Solid State Ionics, J. Power Sources, Inorganica Chimica Acta, ChemSusChem, and Carbon.