Andrea Cipollina
Dr. Andrea Cipollina is a Full Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Università di Palermo (Palermo, Italy).
His research Interests focus on water desalination and renewable energy technologies, Salinity Gradient Power processes, and valorisation of brines of natural or anthropic origin. He has led R&D activities in several EU research project on the above topics, developing pioneering prototype systems for desalination and brine valorisation. In particular, he has coordinated the EU project SEArcularMINE, aiming at the “Circular processing of seawater brines from saltworks for recovery of valuable raw materials”. With more than 200 ISI publications and several books in the field of membrane technologies, desalination, salinity gradient power and brine mining, he has gained a relevant position within the academic community related to these topics.
He is also co-founder of the spin-off company ResourSEAs, scaling-up high-tech solutions for brine valorisation and for the circular economy of seawater.
Plenary talk: Engineering electrodes across length-scales for redox flow batteries and fuel cells.