Affiliation: Politecnico di Milano
Keywords: Catalysis, Materials, Chemical processes, Surface science, Photochemistry, Chemical engineering, Technical chemistry
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Gianvito Vilé studied Chemical Engineering in Italy and received his PhD from ETH Zurich with a thesis on the design of nanostructured catalysts for selective hydrogenation with Javier Pérez-Ramírez. During his time at ETH Zurich, he pioneered stable single-atom catalysts and contributed to the discovery and understanding of several hydrogenation catalysts. From 2016 to 2019, he was group leader at Idorsia Pharmaceuticals, where he was responsible for leading a team in chemistry technologies. Since 2020, he has been a faculty member at Politecnico di Milano and, as of 2023, he holds the position of Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering.
His research focuses on understanding the physicochemical effects governing the properties and mechanisms of industrially-relevant catalytic processes and materials. His work is contributing to the replacing of complex homogeneous systems with novel, earth-abundant heterogeneous catalysts. A special focus of his research is the discovery, understanding, design, and use of single-atom catalysts.
Gianvito has received numerous awards, including the ETH Medal, the Dimistris N. Chorafas Award from the Weizmann Institute of Sciences, and the Felder Award from Fondazione Bracco. In 2023, he was granted the ERC Starting Grant for his project SAC_2.0, which aims to unravel some of the mysteries surrounding the structure and reactivity of single-atom catalysts. In addition to that, he has acted as a coordinator for several Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (GreenDigiPharma, SSEFR, SACforCO2) and he is partner for the Horizon Europe SusPharma project.
He has (co-)authored numerous peer-reviewed scientific papers focusing on catalyst design, with an average citation per paper of 83. Furthermore, he serves on the Early-Career Editorial Board Member of important journals in the field of catalysis, including Applied Catalysis B (IF 24.319), ACS ES&T Engineering, and ChemCatChem (IF 5.501). He is also an expert in the fields of catalysis and chemical engineering for the European Commission and other scientific foundations.