Prof. Stefano Vecchio Ciprioti, Ph.D.
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Graduated in Chemistry with honour (1991) he received his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Science in 1995. Assistant professor since december 1996 he is Associate Professor (since march 2019) and belongs to the Department of Basic and Applied Science for Engineering (S.B.A.I.) (Chemical section “Paolo Silvestroni”) of the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering of Sapienza University of Rome.

He is author of about 140 papers published in international peer-reviewed journals and more than 100 contribution to national and international congresses devoted to the development of thermal analysis in the fields of environment, pharmaceutical, food and cultural heritage (being them the most important ones) with particular reference to kinetic and thermodynamic study of chemical and phase change processes
. His papers provided more than 2500 citations, Hirsch index=30 (source Scopus, April 2023).

Since 2020 he is Chair of the Italian Association of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (A.I.C.A.T.)

Since 2020 he is Co-Chairperson of the International Scientific Committee of “Thermodynamics & Thermochemistry” of ICTAC, International Confederation of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (
http://www.ictac.org/scientific_commission.html).

He was Chairman del
XXXIV National Congress on Calorimetry, Thermal Analysis and Applied Thermodynamics, hold in Rome in june 2012, and co-Chairperson of the 5th Central and Eastern European and 14th Mediterranean Joint Conference on Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis held in august 2019.

He is Associate Editor of the
Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (Springer) and he is member of the Editorial Boards of Thermochimica Acta (Elsevier) and of the Open Access journal Polymers (MDPI).

He was
Guest Editor of the following Special Issues:

1) J. Therm. Anal. Calorim. 103 (2011) 17-109 (XXXII Italian Conference of Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis, Trieste, May 25-27, 2010)
2) J. Therm. Anal. Calorim. 112 (2013) 325-535 (XXXIV National Congress on Calorimetry, Thermal Analysis and Applied Thermodynamics, Roma, June 5-8, 2012)
3) Thermochim. Acta 622 (2015) 2-112 (Applications of Thermal Analysis techniques for sublimation and vaporization studies).
4) J. Therm. Anal. Calorim. 142 (2020) 1601-1604 (Joint 5th Central and Eastern European Conference on Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (CEEC-TAC5) & 14th Mediterranean Conference on Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis, Roma, August 27-30, 2019)
5) Ceramics Int. 46 (2020) 29357 (TAFCS2, Joint 5th Central and Eastern European Conference on Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (CEEC-TAC5) & 14th Mediterranean Conference on Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis, Roma, August 27-30, 2019)
6) Polymers, Published in different issues (2022) (Recent Developments on Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis of Polymers and Nanocomposites)
7) Entropy, deadline for submission October 31
st 2021, (Selected Papers from XLII National Conference on Calorimetry, Thermal Analysis and Applied Thermodynamics (AICAT 2020)

He was author of chapters in books of international relevance:
1) J. Simon Ed. Hot Topics in Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, vol. 10: I. Miklós Szilágyi, G. Liptay Eds. Who is Who in Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry 2014, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2014, p. 310.
2) E. Chiavaro Ed. in: Differential Scanning Calorimetry. Applications in fat and oil technology, Chapter V, Application of Thermogravimetric Analysis in the Field of Oils and Fats, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL (U.S.A.), 2015, pp. 123–140.
3)
Catauro M., Vecchio Ciprioti S. (2019) Sol-Gel Synthesis and Characterization of Hybrid Materials for Biomedical Applications. In: Demetzos C., Pippa N. (eds) Thermodynamics and Biophysics of Biomedical Nanosystems. Series in BioEngineering. Springer, Singapore.

He is Scientific Director of one of the two Parties in The Agreement on Cooperation between the Kazan Federal University (Kazan, Russian Federation) and Sapienza University of Rome (Rome, Italy) for both teaching and researching activities, signed in 2016.

He was recently invited to be the speaker for Plenary and key lectures in the following International Conferences:
1) XIX International Conference of Chemical Thermodynamics in Russia (RCCT-2013), Moscow (Russia) 24-28 june, 2013.
2) 2
nd Central and Eastern European Conference on Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (CEEC-TAC2), Vilnius (Lithuania), 27-30 august, 2013.
3) Round Table “Russia-Italy. Perspectives for the use of calorimetry and thermal analysis in chemistry and chemical technology”, University of Plyos, Ivanovo Region, Russia.
4) XX International Conference on Chemical Thermodynamics in Russia (RCCT-2015), Nizhni Novgorod (Russia), june 22-26, 2015
5) Round Table “Russia-Italy. New functional materials and prebiotic compounds”, Ivanovo State University, Suzdal, Vladimir Region (Russia), october 17-20, 2016.
6) 3
rd Central and Eastern European Conference on Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (CEEC-TAC3), Ljubljana (Slovenia), august 25-28, 2015.
7) XXI International Conference on Chemical Thermodynamics in Russia (RCCT-2017), Novosibirsk (Russia) june, 26-30, 2017.

8) XL National Congress on Calorimetry Thermal Analysis and Applied Thermodynamics (AICAT 2018), Pisa (Italy), december 17-19, 2018

He was invited to be one of the lecturer of:
1) the “Summer School for Thermal Analysis Techniques”, which will be held in Thessaloniki (Greece) from 29th of june to 12th of july, 2014.
2) the
Summer School on Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry”, Cagliari, September 12-13, 2014.
3) the “Short Summer School on TA&C”, Chisinau, Moldova, August 28, 2017.

Finally, he is referee of some important international journals, like
Material Chemistry and Physics, Microchimica Acta, International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, the European Physical Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, Journal of the Solid State Chemistry, Fuel Processing Technology, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, Journal of Molecular Structure, Fluid Phase Equilibria, Bullettin of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia, Fuel, Food Science and Technology, Energy and Fuels, BMC Biophysics, The Journal of Physical Chemistry, Journal of Molecular Liquids, Polymer Degradation and Stability, Archives of Metallurgy and Materials, Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry, Italian Journal of Food Science.