Piercarlo Mustarelli, Associate Professor

Piercarlo Mustarelli received his degree in Physics in 1983, a "Diploma di Perfezionamento in Fisica della Materia" (Master in Condensed Matter) in 1987, and a PhD in Chemical Sciences in 1992. From 1993 to 1998 he joined as a Researcher the "Centro di Studio per la Termodinamica e l'Elettrochimica" of Italian CNR. In 1998 he became Researcher at the Department of Physical Chemistry of the University of Pavia, where he is now Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry. He is Director of Advanced Materials and Devices (MADE) Center of the Università di Pavia, and of PREMIO Reference Centre of INSTM. He is President of the Consortium for Chemistry and Renewable Energy (CESCRI), including University of Pavia, Province of Pavia and several agricultural associations. He is also Responsible of the Solid State NMR Laboratory and of the Thin Film Laboratory at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Pavia. Besides, he is in the Board of Directors of NAM S.r.l., a start-up company and spin-off of the University of Pavia involved in aerogel production from biomasses.

At the beginning of his research activity, Mustarelli contributed to the developing of both hardware (probes and transceivers) and software for NMR instrumentation. Later he started to study the physico-chemical, structural and transport properties of disordered solids. To this aim, he used NMR spectroscopy, both static and at the magic angle (MAS), thermal techniques (DSC, MDSC, DEA, TGA), IR and EXAFS spectroscopies, X-rays diffraction. Starting from 1995 he developed a research activity on polymer and composite electrolytes and cathodes for lithium batteries. Later, he focused his attention on polymer fuel cells. His current activity is focused on materials for energy. He is expert of sol-gel procedures applied to silica. He is Author or co-Author of more than 200 publications on international journals, and of more than 300 communications at both national and international Conferences. His h-index is 33 (Scopus).