Main Topics:
- Energy transition
- Electric mobility
- Hydrogen
- Climate change in relation to the use / abuse of fossil fuels
- Critical material resources
- Sustainability
Professional Profile:
Nicola Armaroli is research director at the Italian National Research Council (CNR), member of the Italian National Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and member of the executive board of the European Chemical Society.
His research activities concern molecules and materials for solar energy conversion and the study of the energy transition to more sustainable models and technologies, also in relation to resource scarcity and climate change.
He has published more than 250 scientific papers, 12 books and dozens of contributions in books and journals.
He has lectured at universities, research centers and companies around the world and is a consultant for several international agencies and companies in the field of energy and resources. He was a consultant to the Italian government on sustainable mobility from 2021 to 2022.
He is one of the most cited Italian scientists in the international literature and is the chief editor of Sapere, Italy’s first science magazine, founded in 1935, for which he has written dozens of editorials.
He participates in the debate on the energy transition on national and international media.
Selected Works:
- Fossil fuels exit: Challenges, perspectives, bottlenecks, in The Handbook of Greening of Economic Development, Oxford University Press, 2025
- Photoluminescent Materials and Electroluminescent Devices, Springer, 2017
- Powering Planet Earth – Energy Solutions for the Future, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2013.
- Energy for a Sustainable World – From the oil age to a sun-powered future, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2011 (translated also in Chinese)