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Marco Molinari is an Associate Professor (Reader) at the University of Huddersfield, affiliated with the School of Applied Sciences and the Department of Physical and Life Sciences. He is a member of the Centre for Functional Materials and associate member of the Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery Centre and Structural, Molecular and Dynamic Modelling Centre. His research focuses on computational chemistry and materials science, particularly energy and environmental materials, surface science, and nanomaterials.
Education: BSc from the University of Pavia (Italy, 2006), PhD in computational chemistry (2009) through a collaboration between the University of Pavia and Bath (UK). Postdoctoral research at the University of Bath, funded by the EPSRC, focused on surface science and materials chemistry.
Research interests include computational modeling of mineral and oxide materials, surface adsorption and reactivity, nanoparticle morphology, and catalytic properties. His work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to clean energy and environmental protection. He leads projects such as 'Computational Design and Engineering of Metal Oxide Nanozymes' (2018–2019) and 'NanoCeO2: Design of CeO2 Nanostructures with Enhanced Catalytic Properties' (2017–2017).
Publications span over 100 peer-reviewed articles, with recent studies on cerium oxide nanoparticles, surface engineering, and computational methods like density functional theory. He actively participates in conferences and serves on committees like the EPSRC-funded Materials Chemistry Consortium and the RSC local section.
Molinari supervises PhD students and collaborates on datasets and software tools like SurfinPy for phase diagram generation. His research bridges computational modeling, experimental validation, and real-world applications in energy storage, environmental remediation, and biomedical materials.
