Massimo Lazzari
Dr. M. Lazzari is Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC) since 2010, obtaining the Spanish habilitation to full Professor in 2015. Former Assistant Professor of Macromolecular Chemistry at the Universitá degli Studi di Torino (Italy, 1999-2010), European Union post-doc fellow at Osaka University (Japan, 1996-97) and USC (2003-04), tenure track position at the Institute of Technological Investigations of the USC (2005-2010, on research leave from Torino) and Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba (Japan, 2016). Founder member of the group Condensed Matter & Functional Materials (MAT2), together with Dr. J.F. Rivadulla and Dr. M. Gimenez, recognised in 2018 as one of the most competitive regional groups by the Xunta de Galicia.
At the USC, he has been running a portfolio of competitive international, national and regional research grants, including an ERC ERA NET Matera + project within the 7th FP on the development of Hybrid Organic-based Nanostructured Devices, and a recent European Union Horizon 2020 project on the development of NANOmaterials for the REStoration of works of ART.
Dr. Lazzari research lines concern different aspects of nanomaterial science: synthesis and self-assembling of block copolymers, and their use as a tool for the fabrication of nanomaterials (from sensors to nanostructured carbons), functional polymers to control synthesis and spatial distribution of metal nanoparticles, polymer nanocomposites and their applications, nanomaterials and nanotechnology for the conservation of cultural heritage. His investigations enabled the publication of around 90 papers in WoS journals (Adv. Mat., Chem. Mater., Chemical Comm., Carbohydrate Polymers, Macromolecules, Polymer Chem., J. Mater. Chem., Materials Today, Macromol. Rapid Comm., etc.; during 2015-2020, 78% Q1, 33% D1) which account for more than 3600 cites (h-index 29), 10 book chapters and the editorship of 4 books. Google scholar > 5500 cites.