Researcher since 1983 at the Department of Organic Chemistry of the University of Padua, Maurizio Prato was appointed Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry in the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Trieste in 1992, becoming Full Professor in February 2000.
He obtained two prestigious grants from the ERC, in 2008 and 2020, he was appointed member of the Accademia dei Lincei in 2010, of the European Academy of Sciences in 2013, of the Academia Europaea in 2015 and of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere and Arts in 2018. He was appointed Honorary Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 2013.
He carried out research at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA (1980), University College, Dublin, Ireland (1983), Yale University, (1986-87), University of California, Santa Barbara, (1991-92). He was Professor Invité at the Departments of Chemistry of the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Paris, in 2001, the University of Namur, Belgium, in 2010, the University of Strasbourg in 2014 and the University of Mons, Belgium, in 2018 like Francqui Chair. He has published over 700 articles in high-impact international journals, for a total of over 70 thousand citations and an h factor of 114. He received an Honorary Degree in Materials Science from the University of Tor Vergata in 2014 and a Doctorate in Chemistry from the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Spain in 2016.
He has been Associate Editor of Scientific Reports (Nature Journals) since 2015 and of ChemSusChem (Wiley, since 2015). He is a member of the International Advisory Board of ACS Nano (ACS since 2014) and Chemical Physics Letters (Elsevier).
He has received numerous awards, including the Ree-Natta Lectureship, Korean Chemical Society (2010), the Blaise Pascal Medal, European Academy of Sciences (2013), the Natta Gold Medal, Italian Chemical Society (2014), the European Carbon Association Award (2015), French-Italian Chemical Societies Award, (2015), ACS Nano Lectureship Award, American Chemical Society (2015), ChemPubSoc Europe Fellow (2018), Richard Smalley Award, Electrochemical Society, USA (2019).
BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS (ISI Web of Knowledge)
- 500 peer-reviewed articles
- 33,077 citations
- h index 87 (Web of Science) or 90 (Google Scholar)
- Most quoted paper: 1791 citations D. Tasis, N. Tagmatarchis, A. Bianco, M. Prato (2006) Chemistry of carbon nanotubes. Chemical Reviews 106, 1105.
- Most quoted experimental papers: 854 citations M. Maggini, G. Scorrano, M. Prato (1993) Addition of azomethine ylides to C60 – Synthesis, characterization, and functionalization of fullerene pyrrolidines. J Am Chem Soc 115, 9798.
- 711 citations V. Georgakilas, K. Kordatos, M. Prato et al., (2002) Organic functionalization of carbon nanotubes. J Am Chem Soc 124, 760.
PROFESSIONAL CAREER
- Laurea degree, University of Padova, Department of Organic Chemistry,1978-82
- Research fellow: University of Padova, Department di Organic Chemistry, 1982
- Assistant professor: University of Padova, 1983-92
- Postdoctoral fellow: Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA, 1-2/1980, prof. H. J. Shine
- Visiting fellow: University College, Dublin, Ireland, 7-8/1983, prof. R. A. More O’Ferrall
- Postdoctoral fellow: Yale University, New Haven, USA, 10/1986 – 12/1987, Chemistry Department, prof. Samuel J. Danishefsky
- Visiting scientist: University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, 10/1991 – 9/1992, Institute for Polymers and Organic Solids, prof. Fred Wudl
- Associate professor: University of Trieste, 1992-2000
- Full professor: University of Trieste, 2000-
- Visiting professor: Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France, June-July 2001
- Visiting professor: University of Namur, Belgium, June 2010
- Recipient of the ERC Advanced Research Grant, European Research Council, 2008
- Socio Corrispondente, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 2010-
- Honorary Laurea Degree in Sciences and Technologies of Materials, Università di Roma, Tor Vergata, June 2014
