Aurelio Bifulco is an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at the University of Naples Federico II (UniNa). Before that, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical, Materials and Production Engineering at UniNa. His research focuses on sol–gel chemistry, polymer chemistry, flame retardancy, and nanotechnology. In 2025, Aurelio Bifulco was a Visiting Professor at the University of Lorraine, France. In 2023 and 2025, he was an invited speaker at the European Meeting on Fire Retardant Polymeric Materials (FRPM). In 2020, he received his PhD in Industrial Product and Process Engineering from UniNa. In 2019, he was a Visiting PhD Student at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa). In 2014, as an Erasmus student, he completed a master’s thesis at the Institute of Chemical Engineering at TU Wien. In 2011, he carried out a bachelor’s degree thesis in Industrial Chemistry at UniNa. Aurelio Bifulco is a Reviewer for international grant proposals from the National Science Centre of Poland, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the European Commission. He is the owner and inventor of two Italian patents, and has published 3 book chapters and more than 54 articles in international peer-reviewed journals that attracted 1,436 citations; his h-index is 23. Finally, he is on the Editorial Board of several journals publishing in the field of polymer chemistry and advanced functional materials.
