**Roberto Fiorenza**

Roberto Fiorenza (PhD) is a researcher in industrial chemistry at the department of Chemical Sciences of the University of Catania (Italy). He works on the synthesis and characterization of new materials (catalysts) for environmental and energy applications (purification of air, water, production and hydrogen, CO<sup>2</sup> valorization, etc.), focusing his research on semiconductors and on TiO2-based materials. He is the author and co-author of various papers in international peer review journals and a reviewer of some international journals dealing with catalysis and material science. He teaches the courses Sustainable Industrial Chemistry (to Master's degree students in chemical science) and Sustainable Industrial Chemistry and Materials for the Environmental Protection (to PhD students).

In June 2019, he received the Adolfo Parmaliana 2019 Award from the catalysis group of the Italian chemical society for the best doctoral thesis on the theme catalysis for a sustainable development; the same work also earned him an award from the Gioenia Academy of Catania in the October 2018. In 2017, he received the Young Student Award at the international EMRS conference (European Materials Research Society) Spring Meeting 2017 in Strasbourg.

He carried out parts of his research work at the CNR-IMM of Catania (ESF SENTI project), at the University of Palermo with the research group of Prof. Leonardo Palmisano, at the University of Namur (Belgium) with the research group of Prof. Bao-Lian Su, at the Plataforma Solar de Almeria (Spain) with the research group of Prof. Sixto Malato and at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) in the group of Prof. S. Reichenberger.

In February 2022, he achieved the National Scientific qualification as an associate professor in the Italian higher education system, for the disciplinary field of 03/C2 Industrial and Applied Chemistry.
