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Personal Information
Name
Address
Maurizio Peruzzini
ICCOM CNR, Via Madonna del Piano, 10
50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Florence), Italy
Telephone / fax
tel +39-055-5225289 / fax +39-055-5225203
e-mail
[email protected]; [email protected]
Nationality
Italian
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Place and date of birth
Florence (I), February 15 , 1955
Work experience
October 2013 – present: Director, Istituto Chimica dei Composti Organometallici, (ICCOM CNR)
February 2011 – October 2013: Deputy Director, ICCOM CNR
April 1986 - present: ICCOM CNR, formerly Istituto per lo Studio della Stereochimica ed
Energetica dei Composti di Coordinazione del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, ISSECC CNR.
Researcher (1986 – 1996); Senior Researcher (1996 – 2001); Research Director (2001 – present)
November 1981 - March 1986: University of Florence, Department of Chemistry.
Research Assistant. Research interests: synthetic coordination and organometallic chemistry.
Name of employer
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, Italy
Type of business or sector Chemistry; Research & Management
Education and training
1974 - 1979: Laurea in Chemistry 110/110 cum laude, University of Florence, June 1979.
Research Advisors: Professor Luigi Sacconi and Professor Piero Stoppioni.
Principal subjects
Inorganic, Organic and Organometallic chemistry
Recent research activities Activation of small inorganic and organic molecules; activation and functionalization of white
phosphorus; transition-metal hydrides; materials for H-storage; CO2 capture and valorisation; metal
promoted functionalization of terminal alkynes; selective transformations of vinylidenes and
allenylidenes; Water soluble organometallic complexes; homogeneous catalysis
Book and articles
Author of 322 scientific publications (112 American Chemical Society / 43 Royal Society of Chemistry),
4 patents and 408 presentations at International (276) and National (132) Chemical Meetings;
Web of Science ISI Ranking: h-index 45; results found 284; sum of times cited 7338 (>5936 without
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self-citations); average citation per item 25.8 (as at June 22 2013).
Book Editor: “Recent Advances in Hydrides Chemistry”, Elsevier SA (Amsterdam, NL), 578 pages, 2002;
ISBN 13: 978-0-444-50733-4 (with R. Poli, Uni Dijon, F); "Phosphorus Compounds: Advanced Tools in
Catalysis and Material Sciences", Series Catalysis by Metal Complexes, Vol. 37; Springer Verlag
(Heidelberg, D), 469 pages, July 2011; ISBN 978-90-481-3816-6 (with L. Gonsalvi, ICCOM CNR).
Guest Editor: Coordination Chemistry Reviews (Elsevier SA), Volumes 185/186 (May, 1999; 838 pages)
and 190/192 (October, 1999; 1285 pages), (with Ivano Bertini, University of Florence, Italy).
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European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (Wiley VCH), 10 Year-Anniversary issue, July 2007; issue
18/2007, pp 2513 – 2985, (with Karl Kirchner, Technical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria).
Additional information
Awards: Prize "Raffaele Nasini" 1993, gold medal awarded by the Division of Inorganic Chemistry of
the Società Chimica Italiana; SCF French-Italian Prize, 2011, Lectureship Prize awarded by the Société
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Chimique de France at Université Claude Bernard, Lyon-Villeurbanne, June 8 2012 (advertised in
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 11838 – 11839).
Honours: Fellow of the John van Geuns Foundation (1996 and 2000) at the University of Amsterdam,
Amsterdam, NL; Fellow of the Hans Vielberth Stiftung (2007 and 2012) at the Universität Regensburg,
Regensburg, Germany
Member of Editorial Boards (selected): Editorial Board of the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, D),
2007 - 2012; Editorial Advisory Board of Organometallics (American Chemical Society, USA), 2006 –
2008; Regional Editor of The Open Catalysis Journal (Bentham Science Pub) since 2010; Editorial
Board of Inorganica Chimica Acta (Elsevier, SA, NL) since 2013.
International and National Activity (last five years):
• Coordinator and Responsible of the integrated projects “FIRENZE HYDROLAB” and “FIRENZE HYDROLAB”2: ‘Advanced Research
Programme for the production, storage and utilization of hydrogen as energy carrier’ (since 2004) Funded by ‘Ente Cassa di
Risparmio di Firenze’. Contribution from the Bank Foundation, 2.972.000 €
• Coordinator of the MARIE CURIE International Incoming Fellowships (IIF) FP7-PEOPLE-IIF-2008-236423 “New modular selfth
assembled homogeneous catalysts for asymmetric synthesis in water” (MODUCAT) (2009 – 2012) (7 RFP). Budget 163.074 €.
• Coordinator of the MATTM (MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, Rome, Italy) project PIRODE (“Hydrogen production from renewables
and its release on demand through chemical storage”) (2010 – 2012). Budget ca. 805.000 €.
• Deputy Coordinator of the GRUPPO DI RICERCA INTERNAZIONALE, GDRI, Agreement entitled “Catalyse Homogène pour le
Développement Durable (CH2D)” (2008 – 2011) between the CNRS (France), CNR (Italy) and RAS (Russia).
• Responsible of the industrial contract “White phosphorus activation and functionalization” between ICCOM CNR and the Dutch
company Thermphos International BV (Vlissingen, NL) (2004/2005); renewed (2006/2008 and 2008/2011). Contribution from the
industry, 246.000 €.
• Responsible of the ICCOM-CNR Research Unit in the INTEGRATED TRAINING NETWORK project RFP7-PEOPLE-2012-ITN - 317404
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"A European Training Network for Sustainable Phosphorus Chemistry (SUSPHOS)" (2013 – 2016) (7 RFP). Budget: 3.676.692,69 €.
• Responsible of a Research Unit in the Progetti di Ricerca di interesse Nazionale (PRIN) – Bando 2009; “Unconventional activation
and functionalization of phosphorus compounds in low oxidation states and their use in stoichiometric and catalytic processes”
(2008 – 2010). Research budget for CNR 130.000 €.
• Member elect of the Executive Board of EUROCHEMISTRY (http://euro-chemistry.org/) (Elected by the EUROCHEMISTRY General
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Assembly, 23 October, 2010 - Madrid Spain) (2010 – 2012).
• Member of the Working Group AIRI (Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca Industriale) - priority “Chemistry” - for the preparation
of the book “Priority Technologies for the Industry” (7th Ed, 2009; 8th Ed, 2013).
• Deputy Director (“Vicario”) of the CNR “Dipartimento Progettazione Molecolare” (Appointed by the Director of DPM CNR on
September 10, 2008) (2008 – 2011).
• Project Leader at CNR - “Dipartimento Progettazione Molecolare” (Appointed by the CNR President on August 3, 2006) (2006 –
2010; prolonged to – 2011): 2006: Project PM03 - Progettazione di molecole e sistemi nanostrutturati con proprietà catalitiche.
2007 – 2010: Project PM03 - Prodotti e processi innovativi per una chimica sostenibile.
• Member of the National Committee for the participation of CNR to the IUPAC: International Union of Pure and Applied
Chemistry (Appointed by the CNR President on May 31, 2013) (2013 – 2014).
• Member of the Governing body (representing CNR) in the Cluster Tecnologico Nazionale Energia – CTNE (Appointed by the
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Assembly of CTNE Associates, 21 March, 2013 – Rome, Italy) (2013 – ).
• Coordinator of the CNR technical task-force for the ENEL-CNR framework agreement (2013).
• Member of the Experts’ Committee for the Short-Term-Mobility program of CNR (representing the “Dipartimento Scienze
Chimiche e Tecnologia dei Materiali”), since 2013.
• MP has been appointed since 2010 as a member of the Scientific and Technical Board of Energethica SrL, a circuit for renewable
and sustainable energy, for the area “Hydrogen”
• President of the “Luigi Sacconi” Foundation (Firenze, Italy), since November 2012
• Chair elect of the Executive Board of the Division of Inorganic Chemistry of the Italian Chemical Society (Società Chimica Italiana)
(2009 – 2011).
• Member elect of the Executive Board of the Division of Inorganic Chemistry of the Italian Chemical Society (Società Chimica
Italiana) (2003 – 2005; re-elected 2006 – 2008).
• Member elect of the Executive Board of the Interdivisional Group “Chemistry of the Renewable Energies” (Chimica delle Energie
Rinnovabili – ENERCHEM) (2013 - 2015).
• Member of the Constituent Executive Board of the Interdivisional Group “Chemistry of the Renewable Energies” (Chimica delle
Energie Rinnovabili – ENERCHEM) (2012). Appointed by the Central Council of SCI.
• Italian representative (Delegate of the Italian Chemical Society) in the Working Party “Chemistry and Energy” of EuCheMS
(European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences) (2007 – present).
• Member of the Consulting Committee of the Italian Chemical Society on the issue of “Energy & Chemistry” (2008 – present).
• Member of the Commission for the International Affairs (Commissione Affari Internazionali) of the Italian Chemical Society,
since 2012.
• Member of the Technological Governmental Board (Comitato di Indirizzo Tecnologico) of the Technological District of Tuscany
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on Renewable Energies (appointed by the Regional Board on August 1 , 2011)
• Member of the Technological-Scientific Board (CTS, Comitato Tecnico-Scientifco) for the areas “Hydrogen Technologies” and
“CO2 Technologies” of the “Innovation Pole for Technologies on Renewable Energies and Energy efficiency” (PIERRE: Polo di
Innovazione per le tecnologie sulle Energie Rinnovabili ed il Risparmio Energetico) of the Tuscany Region, since 2011.
• Member of the Technical-Scientific Board (Comitato Tecnico-Scientifico) of the C.R.E.A. Research Center Energy and Environment
(Centro di Ricerca Energia e Ambiente) at Colle di Val d’Elsa (SI) (appointed by the Rector of the University of Siena, since 2012).
• MP has been appointed as Member of the “Collegio Docenti di Dottorato” of the Dept of Chemistry of the University of Florence
(2010-2013) and he is member of “Collegio Docenti di Dottorato” of the Dept of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Pharmacy of the
University of Siena, since 2013.
• MP has been appointed (2008) as Member of the External Evaluation Panel (Area Chemistry; Panel EEC 8.1) of the Strategic
Plans of CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas), Madrid (Spain), for the years 2010 – 2013.
• MP has been appointed by AERES (Agence d’évalutation de la recherche et de l’enseignement superior – Paris, France) as a
Member of the Visiting Committee to assess the research activity of Centre International de Recherche aux Frontières de la Chimie
(RTRA – CIRFC) at Strasbourg University (2013).
• MP has served as Expert Evaluator for the European Research Council 'ERC Advanced Grant 5th Call - 2012' in the field of
'Synthetic chemistry and materials', panel PE5.
• Invited peer reviewers of more than 50 different research journals and of more than 25 Research institutions and Universities
worldwide including [NSF, ACS Petroleum Funds (USA); AFR (F); DFG, Wolkswagen Found (D); NWO (NL); CCEM, SNSF (CH); FNR
(LUX); A*STAR, President Award (SINGAPORE); OTKA (H); TUBITAK (TY); BAS (BG); GNSF, Rustaveli Found. (GEO); TWAS (I), etc]
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• Visiting Professor: Conference Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale, Commission Scientifique pour l’Enseignement du 3 Cycle en
Chimie, Ecole Polytechnic Federale de Lausanne, University of Neuchatel, University of Basel, Switzerland (2008) ; University of La
Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (2009); University of Strasbourg, France (2012).
• More than 60 invited lectures at Universities and research laboratories; more than 60 presentations as invited Plenary, Keynote
and Session Lecturer at international and national conferences, meetings and workshops.
• Member of several International (37) and National (26) Scientific Committees.