Rende, Calabria, Italy
Alessio Fuoco is a Materials Scientist (MSc at the University of Calabria) and earned his Erasmus Mundus Doctorate in Membrane Engineering (EUDIME) at the Universities of Toulouse (FR), Calabria (IT) and Twente (NL). Currently, he is a Researcher working on “Preparation, characterization and modelling of polymeric membranes for gas and vapour separation”. Previously, he has worked on membranes for the treatment of complex fluids. Alessio is author of several publications in international peer-reviewed journals. He has been involved in several international projects and he is the PI of CINECA projects on modelling of polymeric membranes. Scientific keywords: Polymeric membrane preparation and characterization, spectroscopic techniques, quantum and molecular mechanics theories, Polymeric membrane preparation and characterization, spectroscopic techniques, quantum and molecular mechanics theories, gas separation, Polymer of Intrinsic Microporosity, Metal Organic Frameworks. Informatics: Windows, Linux, Office Pack, Igor, Origin, Latex, MatCos, FidoCad, Electronics Work Bench, Adobe Premier Pro, PhotoShop, Molden, NWChem, Mopac, Avogadro.
Preparation, Characterization and modelling of membranes. Coordinator of the European EIC funded project DAM4CO2, of the national projects doMino and MeNaCe@CO2 and bilateral and industrial projects.
Preparation, Characterization and modelling of membranes. Coordinator and participant of National, European and industrial projects.
Development of novel polymeric and hybrid membranes for application in gas and vapour separation processes. The confidential research is funded by an industrial grant.
The consultancy was focused on the containment of micrometer particle in a filtration media to be used for the treatment of liquid and gas streams. The filtration media had to be stable at high temperature and in presence of organic solvents (acid and base included). The core business of the client company is the design of industrial plants for the naval, petrochemical and military sectors. I was contacted by the PhDs/companies matching website www.findyourdoc.org
I was selected as tutor for students in the framework of the project "tutoring@unical" for the following courses: Mathematics (Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences) Physics and Mathematics (Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences) Chemistry (Department of Physics) Physics (Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences)
My research focused on the membranes characterization by several techniques such as: Zeta Potential, Water Sorption uptake, Differential Scanning Calorimetry, Thermogravimetric analysis, Atomic Force Microscope, Contact Angle.
The aim of my research at the ITM-CNR in collaboration with UNICAL was the study of membrane systems by computational methods. In particular Quantum Mechanics and/or Molecular Mechanics theories were applied on the polymeric systems in order to evaluate their properties at molecular scale.