David Cappelletti

Background

About David Cappelletti

David-Michele Cappelletti (DMC) is Full Professor of Chemistry at the University of Perugia. He moved at the Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology in 2013 as coordinator of the Environmental Chemistry and Technology (ECT) research group after starting his career at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the same University in 1993. This followed on from visiting research positions (Dip. Fisica, Trento, Italy; Dept. Chemistry, Rochester, NY, USA), Post Doctoral position (NTU Taipei, Taiwan), Ph.D. in Chemistry (University of Perugia) and the first degree in Chemistry (University of Perugia). Since 2009 he served as operator of the WGMS (World Glacier Monitoring Service with annual field campaigns mainly at the Calderone Glacier (Gran Sasso d’Italia) and since 2016 he is a member of the Italian Glaciological Committee (CGI). He also participated in several Italian Arctic Expeditions (2011-2018). He is a member of the Doctorate School of Chemical Sciences of the Perugia University. He participated as a supervisor to various Ph.D. thesis in Chemistry, Physics and Biology and more than 40 undergraduate theses in Chemistry, Physics, Environmental Engineering, and Biology. David Cappelletti is the co-author of more than 170 scientific ISI publications, including well-renowned international journals of high impact factor (such as Nature, Angewandte Chemie, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics). He also co-authored 20 chapter of books and non-ISI papers. He has contributed to important review papers (Accounts of Chemical Research, International Reviews in Physical Chemistry, Progress in Surface Science, Advances in Quantum Chemistry). His publications received citations, h-index: 42 (Web of Science and Google Scholar). He also co-authored more than 300 communications at scientific meetings. David Cappelletti is in the TIS (Top Italian Scientists) list.