Alessandra Sanson

Alessandra Sanson

Alessandra Sanson gained her master degree in Industrial Chemistry at University of Padua and her PhD in materials science at Cranfield University (UK) in 2003. She then joined the Institute of Science and technology for Ceramics (ISTEC) (now Institute of Science, Technology and Sustainability of Ceramics, ISSMC) in 2004, where since 2008 she is leader of the Group of Materials and Processing for Energetics in charge of regional, national and european projects related to the energy production and storage. In 2021 she became director of the Institute. Her main activities concern the development of materials and devices for energy applications such as Solid Oxide Cell, solid state batteries and supercapacitors, solar conversion devices (photovoltaics and photoelectrochemical cells). She is co-authors of more than 130 international peer-reviewed papers, three book chapters and inventor of two patents. She had projects with several energy-related companies such as Edison, ENI, FIAMM. From 2011 to 2017 she was CNR representative in the EERA Joint Program “Energy Storage”. Since 2016 she is Italian Focal Point in Mission Innovation for the challenge “Conversion of sunlight to fuels and other forms of chemical energy storage”. She is supervisor of MSc as well as PhD students of Parma, Bologna and Padua. She contributed to the definition of the Smart Specialization Strategy of the Emilia Romagna Region regarding energy. Since 2018 she is member of the Coordination and “Innovation Research and Development” Groups in the Chemistry Observatory of the Ravenna Province for the re-qualification of the chemistry industrial hub. Since April 2023 she is member of the Permanent Scientific Operational Structure of the Italian Chemical Society and CNR representative in the technical groups of the Italian National Cluster “Fabbrica Intelligente”. She is She is member of the NAO-Italy for IUPAC and Associate member of the Division II of the Union.