Ferruti Paolo

Biography

Paolo Ferruti was born in Milan, Italy, on June 5, 1938. He took his degrees of Chemistry by Oct., 1963 at the historical prestigious college (“Almo Collegio Borromeo”) of Pavia, Italy. Immediately afterwards Nobel Prize Giulio Natta summoned him as researcher at the Industrial Chemistry Dept of the Polytechnic of Milan where he got a permanent position as Assistant Professor in 1964. In 1968 he went on leave to the University of California, Berkeley where he collaborated with Nobel Prize Melvin Calvin at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory. In 1975 he was summoned as Full Professor of Industrial Chemistry at the University of Naples and subsequently commuted with the same academic position to the Universities of Bologna (1979-1984), Brescia (1984-1995) and finally Milan (1995-2010). In 2010 he retired from teaching in compliance with Italian regulations, but is still an official guest of the University of Milan very actively doing research with his former research group at the Department of Chemistry. Professor Ferruti is credited to be the inventor of polyamidoamines, a polymer family whose interest is steadily increasing, having published the first papers on them between the late sixties and early seventies of the last century. He authored to date more than 300 papers and 50 patents, mostly on polyamidoamines, but also on other functional polymers for technical and biotechnological applications, such as functionalized poly-4-acryloylmorpholine (PACM), PEG and PVP, as well as on  and -cyclodextrin-based soluble polymers and pH-sensitive crosslinked nanosponges.

Research Interest

Chemistry