Nikolaos Dimitratos (ND) is Associate Professor at the University of
Bologna from November 2018, Italy and specialises in the development of
nanoparticulate materials for a range of chemical applications. ND
studied chemistry at the University of Bath and received his PhD at the
University of Liverpool in 2003.
ND has extensive expertise in the
synthesis, characterisation and catalytic testing of a range of
materials for gas and liquid phase reactions. He has been involved in
the development and management of several leading research projects
(Auricat-ITN), Glycerol Challenge (TSB) and Dow Methane Challenge),
having spent several years in the UK (at Liverpool, Cardiff and UCL) and
Italy (Milan). He was a principal investigator in a range of projects
at the UK Catalysis Hub (Nanoparticle Design) and a Co-Investigator on
several EPSRC research grants totalling around £4.5 M. To date, ND has
authored >200 research articles in top-tier journals including
Science, Nature Chemistry and Angewandte Chemie, ACS Nano, as well as
having four international patents, and an H-index of 64 with more than 15000 citations and has given >45 presentations (12 invited, two
plenaries).
