Professor of Industrial Chemistry, University of Catania (1975-2008);
Director (1980-2002) of the Institute for Chemistry & Technology of Polymeric Materials of the National Council of Research of Italy, Catania;
President of Accademia Gioenia delle Scienze di Catania (2008-2010);
Award for Scientific Research of the Italian Chemical Society, Turin 2003;
Award for Creative Research of the Italian Chemical Industry, Milan 1990;
Award to the Career: Italian Association Macromolecules, Catania 2018;
Past Member Editorial Board: Macromolecules; Journal of Polymer Science; Macromolecular Chemistry & Physics; Trends in Polymer Science, Polymer Degradation & Stability; Journal of Analytical & Applied Pyrolysis; Polymer International; European Mass Spectrometry, Current Analytical Chemistry
Author of over 380
publications
on International Journals and Books;
His participation to over 140 international invited and named lectures includes the Charles M. McKnight Lectures, April 1998, University of Akron, USA;
After getting his PhD in Chemistry (1959), he became an Assistant at the Institute of Industrial Chemistry in Catania;
ln 1966 became Private Docent in Organic Industrial Chemistry (Committee President, Giulio Natta);
In 1966 went to USA as a Postdoctoral Associate with Prof. Charles G. Overberger at the Polytechnic of Brooklyn (1966) and then at the University of Michigan (1967-68). We went back as Research Associate at the University of Michigan in 1971;
He was a Humboldt Foundation Fellow with Prof. H. Ringsdorf at the Mainz University, De (1973);
Visiting Professorships:
1980 University of Mainz, De (3 months, Seminars cycle);
1985 University of Massachusetts, USA (Seminars cycle );
1988 University of Cincinnati, USA (6 months, Tutorial Course);
1995 Université Pierre&Marie Curie, Paris (2 months, Tutorial Course);
1998; 2002 University of Akron, USA (Named Lecture, Seminars cycle);
2004 Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (2 months, Tutorial Course).
Collaborations with Industrial Groups:
Snia, Enichem, Montedison, AID, DuPont, General Electric, Goodrich, Essilor.