Antonella Gervasini
Professor
Chemistry
University of Milan
Italy
Biography
Antonella Gervasini is at present an Associate Professor in Physical Chemistry disciplines at the “Sciences and Technologies” Faculty of the University of Milano (UNIMI) in the Chemistry Department of UNIMI.She awarded the PhD in Chemical Sciences in 1987. She started working in the field of heterogeneous catalysis in Eni group (S. Donato Milanese). In 1992, she awarded the position of Academic Researcher in UNIMI and then the position of Associate Professor in 2001. She performed several research stages (1987, 1990, and 1993) at the Institut de Recherches sur la Catalyse of CNRS of Villeurbanne, France, where in 2003, she won the position of “Invited Professor” for six months. She was invited for one month at the University of Lille-1 Sciences and Technology in 2010, with which she has established a five-year framework program with UNIMI; and in 2012 in Nanjing University (China) to start up joint research activities.
Research Interest
Inorganic physical-chemistry and heterogeneous catalysis
Publications
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Carniti P, Gervasini A, Tiozzo C, Guidotti M. (2014) Niobium-Containing Hydroxyapatites as Amphoteric Catalysts: Synthesis, Properties, and Activity. ACS Catalysis; 4 : 469-479.
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Gervasini A, Carniti P, Marzo M, Auroux A. (2012) Effect of the K+, Ba 2+, and Nd 3+ addition to Nb 2 O 5 on intrinsic and effective acidity in relation to biomass reactions. Journal of catalysis; 296 : 143-155.
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Carniti P, Gervasini A, Marzo M. (2010) Silica–niobia oxides as viable acid catalysts in water: effective vs. intrinsic acidity. Catalysis Today; 152 : 42-47.
