Prof. PhD. Patrizia Cinelli is associate professor of University of Pisa on Fundamentals of chemical technologies. She graduated in chemistry in 1995 at the University of Florence, in 1999 she got a PhD in Chemistry on “biodegradable and sustainable polymers for application in agriculture”, at Pisa University, partly performed at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Peoria, IL, USA, where she spent three stages (6 months duration) in 1998, 2000 and 2001. She has accumulated over 25 years of international experience in applied and green chemistry, polymer science and technologies working in the frame of regional, national and European projects from FP5 to the current Horizon 2020. She has participated in over 20 European projects, and participating in three Horizon2020 CBE BBI projects in the Bio Based Industries calls, acting as coordinator of the ECOFUNCO project GA 837863. She is co-author of over 143 papers in peer-reviewed journal, h-index 43, 14 book chapters, 9 patents on innovative materials, participated in over 200 conferences as speaker, invited speaker and is chair of the Conference on Green Chemistry and Sustainable Coatings held in Pisa 2022, 2023. Prof. Patrizia Cinelli has worked on biodegradable polymers, sustainability, and biomass valorization.
