SANTORO CARLO

Carlo Santoro

got his B.S. (2006) and M.S. (2008) in Environmental Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano (Italy) working on transport phenomena in Direct Methanol Fuel Cells. He earned in 2013 his PhD in Environmental Engineering at the University of Connecticut (USA) working on novel materials for Microbial Fuel Cells. After his PhD, in 2013, he moved as Post Doc to the University of New Mexico (USA) in the Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering working on: i) bacteria attachment of different surfaces and biofilm formation; ii) enzymes for the reduction of oxygen and for biosensing; iii) synthesis of carbonaceous materials as support for catalysis. In 2014, he moved as Post Doc to the Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and he developed a biosensor capable of detecting VOCs. In 2015, he moved back as Post Doc to the University of New Mexico (USA) at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering where he did work on platinum-free catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) along the entire pH spectra and integration of supercapacitors and bioelectrochemical systems. In 2016, he was promoted as Research Assistant Professor. In 2017, he became Associate Professor at University of the West of England Bristol (UK). In 2020, he joined the Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science as Lecturer at the University of Manchester in 2020 where he was a Lecturer. In 2021, he joined the Department of Materials Science at the University of Milano-Bicocca as Tenure Track Assistant Professor. He got promoted in January 2024 as Associate Professor. He is author of 143 peer-reviewed manuscripts (H-index=53, Scholar) and he presented over 130 contributions oral and poster presentations. He is currently serving as Chair of Division 2 for the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) (terms 2025-2026). His work will be dedicated to electrocatalysis and bioelectrocatalysis for various electrochemical and bioelectrochemical reactions related to electrochemical conversion and storage technologies. Please visit the website for update.