Prof. Vito Di Noto was born in Piana degli Albanesi (PA) on February 6th, 1960, and was awarded a degree in Chemistry by the University of Padova in the Academic Year 1985/86 with full marks. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Padova in October 1992.
From 1992 to 2002 he was a researcher at the Department of Inorganic, Metallorganic and Analytical Chemistry of the University of Padova. Since October 2002 he is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry (SS CHIM03) at the Department of Chemical Sciences of the University of Padova.
Scientific Collaborations
In the late ‘80s Prof. Di Noto carried out research activities at the Hamburg Synchrotron Laboratories (DESY) as a guest of Prof. H. G. Zachmann of the Macromolecular Chemistry Department. He has collaborated with qualified national industrial research laboratories such as Centro Ricerche Giulio Natta, Montell S.p.A. and ECP-Enichem Polimeri di Ferrara. Nowadays, he is collaborating in research projects with the following foreign research groups:
- Physics Department, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, USA (prof. J.J Fontanella)
- Physics Department, Hunter College of CUNY, NY, USA (prof. S. Greenbaum)
- Department of Chemistry, Tokyo University of Science (prof. T. Furukawa)
- Department of Biotechnology, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (prof. H. Ohno)
- Department of Ceramics and Materials Engineering, Rutgers University, NJ, USA (prof. A. Safari and dr. M. Vittadello)
- Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Solid-State Research, Stuttgart, Germany (prof. K. D. Kreuer)
- University of Grenoble, Laboratory of Electrochemistry and Physical Chemistry of Materials and Interfaces, Grenoble, France (prof. J. Y. Sanchez)