CURRICULUM VITAE

Michele Pavone – Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry
Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II
michele.pavone@unina.it  

ACADEMIC TRACK

2017          National Scientific Habilitation (ASN) to Full Professor in Physical Chemistry (03/A2)

2015-present    Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry Department of Chemical Sciences – University of Naples Federico II

2014                 National Scientific Habilitation (ASN) to Associate Professor in Physical Chemistry (03/A2)

2008-2015        Assistant Professor (Ricercatore Universitario) of Physical Chemistry (CHIM02) Department of Chemistry “Paolo Corradini” University of Naples Federico II

2008                 Postdoctoral fellow in the group of Prof. Vincenzo Barone, University of Naples Federico II

2007                 Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences (XX cycle), University of Naples Federico II

2004                 Laurea (M.Sc. equivalent) in Chemistry (110 cum laude), University of Naples Federico II

RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

2012-present    Principal Investigator (PI) in the research group First-Principles Modeling of Molecules and Materials (FPM3), Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II

2010-2012        Associate Research Scholar in the group of prof. Emily A. Carter, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, USA

2008-2010        Researcher in the group of prof. Vincenzo Barone, Department of Chemistry “Paolo Corradini”, University of Naples Federico II.

2004-2007        Ph.D. student at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Naples Federico II. Thesis “An integrated computational approach to modeling physico-chemical processes of biological and technological relevance” Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Barone.

2005-2006        Visiting Graduate Student Research Collaborator, Department of Chemistry, advisor: Prof. Emily A. Carter, Princeton University, USA.

2004/02-03      Visiting Scholar in the research group of Prof. Carlo Adamo, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Paris (ENSCP), France.

2003/10-11      Visiting Scholar in the research group of Prof. Carlo Adamo, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Paris (ENSCP), France.

2002-2004        Undergraduate internship in the Laboratory of Structure and Dynamics of Molecules at the Department of Chemistry, University of Naples Federico II. Thesis Advisors: Prof. Vincenzo Barone and Prof. Orlando Crescenzi

AWARDS

2017    Featured among Emerging Investigators 2017 in the field of Materials for Energy by the international scientific Journal of Materials Chemistry A (Royal Society of Chemistry)

2016    Carla Roetti award as best researcher under 40 from the Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society

2008     Winner – Start Cup Federico II with the business-plan Genenvet

2008    Giovanni Semerano award from the Physical Chemistry Division of Italian Chemical Society for the best Italian PhD thesis in physical chemistry

2005    Mario Mazzetti award of Science Literature and Arts National Society in Naples for the best experimental thesis degree in chemistry

RESEARCH FUNDINGS

2019-2021        MISE-ENEA PTR 2019-2021 Research for the Electric System “Computational design of new cathodes for Sodium ion batteries”, PI  of the UniNA Research Unit

2019-2023        EU-COST Action 18234 “Computational materials sciences for efficient water splitting with nanocrystals from abundant elements”, Vice Chair.

2018-2019        MISE-ENEA PAR 2018 Research for the Electric System “High energy cathodes for Sodium ion batteries”, PI of UniNA Research Unit

2017-2020        MIUR-PRIN 2015XBZ5YA “Towards quantum-photovoltaics: ultrafast energy and charge transport in hybrid nanomaterials”, PI of the UniNA Research Unit

2014-2017        MIUR-PRIN 2012NB3KLK “Theoretical study of hybrid organic-inorganic materials in complex chemical environments”, National Coordinator

2013-2016        MIUR-FIRB “Futuro in Ricerca 2012” RBFR122HFZ “Design of nano-heterogeneous materials for solar energy conversion”, National Coordinator

2011-2013        MIUR-PRIN 2009K3RH7N “Multiscale simulation of products and processes of DNA oxidative damage”, PI of UniNA Research Unit

2012-2013       CASPUR Standard HPC Grant 2012 “Oxygen reduction reaction at the cathode surface of proton-conducting SOFCs”, PI

2012-2013        CINECA ISCRA B HPC Grant “Rational design of perovskite-type oxides for oxygen reduction reaction catalysis”, PI

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY

The research activity of Michele Pavone is focused on the development and applications of computational tools for studying physico-chemical properties, processes and phenomena in complex chemical systems. The main topics and accomplishments have been in the following area:

   –        Prediction of spectroscopic properties for molecules in solution with an integrated multi-scale approach [J Am Chem Soc 2006 ].

   –        Development of Dispersion corrected Density Functional Theory (DFT-D) for extended materials [J Comput Chem 2009 ]

   –        Development and applications of Density-Functional Embedding Theory [J Chem Phys 2011 IF 3 cit. 220; Phys Rev Lett 2012 ]

   –        Application of first-principles methods in materials sciences for renewable energies [Energy Environ Sci 2011 ; J Am Chem Soc 2016 ; ACS Ener Lett 2020].

BIBLIOMETRICS

Michele Pavone is author of ~100 research papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals 3 chapters in peer-reviewed scientific books and 1 invited article in the official journal of the Italian Chemical Society. Moreover, Michele Pavone delivered several invited (>25) and contributed talks to national and international meetings and scientific institutions.

For bibliometric indexes of Michele Pavone (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7549-631X) see the following links:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=f6wT3RwAAAAJ&hl=en

https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57221756415

ACTIVITY IN THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY

Member of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI) since 2003

– Elected member of the governing council of SCI Division of Chemical Theory and Computation (2017-present)

– Elected member of the governing council of the SCI Young Chemist Group (2010-2016)

– National Coordinator of the SCI Young Chemist Group (2013-2015)

– Member of SCI Commission on SCI-Industry relations

– Member of the Editorial board of “La Chimica e l’Industria” (2013-2015)

– SCI representative in the European Young Chemist Network (EYCN) (2013-2016)

– Member of the Commission for the Premio Primo Levi (2012, 2013, 2014)

– Member of the Advisory Board of the European Young Chemist Award (2012, 2016)

Member of the American Chemical Society since 2010 Member of the Electro-Chemical Society since 2011

Member of the Italian National Consortium of Materials Science and Technology (INSTM)

– Member of the GISEL center, responsible for the Computational Modelling section.

– Member of the INSTM-VILLAGE national computing network

– Member of the INSTM Innovation Group on INSTM-Industry relations.

Member of the Italian MIUR Selection Committee (CDS) for the call for proposal “Futuro in Ricerca 2013” Reviewer of proposals for the Czech Science Foundation (2014,2015), the Polish National Science Center (2017), the Israel Science Foundation (2017), Israeli Ministry of Science, Technology and Space (2016,2017), Federal German Ministry for Education and Research (2016)

Reviewer of proposals for the European Union: EU-PRACE Initiative (2017, 2018), MSCA-IF H2020 (2018, 2019, 2020), ERC Starting Grant (PE4, 2020).

Member of the PhD Defense Committees for Scuola Normale Superiore (2014) and Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (2015), Scuola Internazionale Superiore Studi Avanzati (2020).

Referee for several international scientific journals (including Nature Comm, J Am Chem Soc, Energy Environ Sci, Phys Chem Chem Phys, J Phys Chem C, J Comput Chem, J Chem Theory Comput, Scientific Reports, Science Adv)

Member in the Organizing or Scientific Committees of >20 national and international meetings 

TEACHING ACTIVITY

Responsible of undergraduate courses in the Bachelor and Master of Science programs in Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry at the University of Naples Federico II: Computational modeling (2008-2009), Computational chemistry (2009-2011), Physical Chemistry of Materials (2012-2014, 2017), Electrochemistry (2011- present), Physical Chemistry 2 (2015-present), Physical Chemistry of Renewable Energies (2020).

– Supervisor of 4 one-year post-doctoral fellowships, Supervisor of 5 Ph.D. students

– Advisor for 38 theses for B.Sc. and M.Sc. programs in Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry

– Faculty Member (Collegio Docenti) of the Doctorate School in Chemical Sciences of the University of Naples Federico II (33, 34, 35, 36, 37 cycles)

– Invited Teacher in National Schools for Graduate Students

  · 2015/06 National School of Physical Chemistry, Italian Chemical Society, Otranto (LE), Italy.

  · 2014/07 XVIII National School of Materials Science and Technology, INSTM, Ischia (NA), Italy.

  · 2014/06 Soft Matter School, Italian Chemical Society, Venezia, Italy.