Prof. Paolo Colombo

Paolo Colombo is a professor of Materials Science and Technology at the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, an adjunct professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, and an honorary professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of University College London, UK. He was a Foreign Scientist at INSA, Lyon, France in 2015, a DFG Mercator Professor at the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany in 2016 and an Academic Advisor, Institute for Advanced Ceramics, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China in 2022-2023. He was elected Academician of the World Academy of Ceramics (2006), Academician of the European Academy of Sciences (2016), Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (2010), Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (2011), Fellow of the European Ceramic Society (2017). He is president of the International Ceramic Federation (ICF) and a member of the Board of directors of the JECS Trust and of the Italian Ceramic Society (ICerS). He has received numerous awards and has published more than 350 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is Editor-in-Chief of Open Ceramics and is in the editorial board of several other international scientific journals. Paolo Colombo’s research interests include novel processing routes to porous glasses and ceramics (currently focusing mainly on Additive Manufacturing, using different technologies), the development of ceramic components from preceramic polymers and geopolymers, and the upcycling of industrial and natural waste.