Leonarda Liotta
Leonarda Francesca Liotta is Director of Research in chemistry and Deputy Director of Palermo branch of the Institute for the Study of Nanostructured Materials (ISMN)-CNR. She is also member of the Scientific Board of the CNR Department of Chemical Sciences and Materials Technologies, DSCTM-CNR. She got National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor in Industrial Chemistry and as well in Chemical Sciences and Inorganic Systems. She is co-author of more than 260 articles in peer-reviewed internal journals, 8 book chapters, 1 PCT Int. Appl. WO patent and she contributed to more the 500 International and National Conferences and informative works. H index: 54 (Scopus 2025). She was mentioned in a list of the top 2% most cited scientists in the world, published by Stanford University.
Member for Italy of the International Association of Catalysis Societies (IACS), member of COST CA23139 (2024-2028) “Network for Indoor Air Cleaning” and leader del WG3 (Air cleaning solutions for gaseous contaminants); participant to COST CA20127 (2021-2025) « Waste biorefinery technologies for accelerating sustainable energy processes (WIRE) », CA20116 (2021-2025) »European Network for Innovative and Advanced Epitaxy » (OPERA), CA22123 (2023-2027) « European Materials Acceleration Center for Energy » (EU-MACE). Previous COST Actions: member of the MC of COST Action 17136 “Indoor Air Pollution network” (2018-2023) and of the MC of COST Action 18224 “Green Chemical Engineering Network towards upscaling sustainable processes (2019-2024). Member of the Italian Chemical Society, in the Industrial Chemistry Group and Interdivisional Catalysis Group. She is in the Scientific board of the Italian ENERCHEM “Interdivisional Group of Chemistry for Renewable Energy” (2022-2024) and she was in the Scientific Board of the Interdivisional Catalysis Group (2015-2017) (2018-2020).
Visiting researcher at the University of Lyon, Lille, Dunkirk, Sorbonne Paris, Valencia, Sevilla, Budapest, Sofia, Tosmk State University, Magurele, Northwestern Polytechnical University of Shanxi.
Expertise: Materials science and heterogeneous catalysis applied to Environmental Remediation (NO SCR, VOCs and soot oxidation) and Clean Energy production/storage (dry/steam reforming, CO2 methanation, SOFCs, SOECs).
