Luigi's CV

2022            Director of Studies in Materials Science and Technology, University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy)

2021            Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy)

2019-2021   Senior Lecturer (RTD b) of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy)

2016-2018   Senior Researcher, MEMEG unit, Department of Biology, Lund University (Sweden)

2015-2016   Senior Researcher, Physical Chemistry Division, Department of Chemistry, Lund University (Sweden)

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.