Luigi's CV

I pursue a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the relationship between chemical composition and complex supramolecular structures. I am focusing my research activity on the out-of-equilibrium phenomena of complex fluids. Moreover, my activity is devoted to understanding and designing materials for industrial applications. I am an associate professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy. I also am a permanent member of the Center for Colloids and Surface Science (CSGI), Florence, Italy. I recently established a research group on rheological properties and structural analysis of stimuli-responsive complex fluids such as colloidal suspensions, polymers, self-assembled surfactant solutions, soil organic matter, and mineral particles. I am working actively on structural characterization of materials by scattering and spectroscopic techniques: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Infrared (FT-IR), small-angle X-ray, Neutron, and light scattering, and last but not least rheology. I am often acting as a reviewer for peer-reviewed scientific journals of ACS, RSC, and Elsevier.