CENTI Gabriele

[April 2022] Gabriele Centi is Full Professor of Industrial Chemistry at the University of Messina, Italy, and President of the European Research Institute of Catalysis (ERIC). The research interests concern the fields of applied heterogeneous catalysis, sustainable energy and chemical processes, production and use of H2, biomass conversion and environmental protection.
He was coordinator of the EU Network of Excellence IDECAT and is currently President of IACS (International Association of Catalysis Societies), in the past also President of EFCATS (European Federation of Catalysis Societies). He has been coordinator or PI in over twenty community projects, as well as many other national and industrial projects. He recently initiated and coordinated an ERC Synergy project on plasma catalysis. He is also a member of the board of SUNERGY, the European initiative on solar fuels.
He has received numerous awards, including the International Fellowship Initiative of the President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, PIFI, as a Distinguished Scientist, and the Humboldt Research Award, and is involved in various publishing activities. He chaired the editorial board of ChemSusChem until 2019 and is co-editor in chief of the Journal of Energy Chemistry (both elevated to high IF journals) and of the Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis series of books, one of the oldest and best known in catalysis. He has been chairperson of numerous international conferences, including Europacat 2017 in Florence and the 16th International Zeolite Conference jointly with the 7th International Mesostructured Materials Symposium (Sorrento, Italy, 2010).
He is the author of over 600 scientific publications, 12 books and editor of over 20 special issues of journals. The current h-index is 91 with around 33,500 citations and over 380 articles with more than 10 citations (Google Scholar, March 2022).