Francesco D'Acierno

Francesco D’Acierno completed his PhD in Chemistry at the University of British Columbia (Canada) under the supervision of Carl Michal and Mark MacLachlan.

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After his doctorate, Francesco joined the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (France), working in Isabelle Capron’s team and leading a project on bio-based emulsions. He subsequently took up a UKRI Postdoctoral Fellowship in Magda Titirici’s group at Imperial College London (United Kingdom), where he investigated the pressure carbonization of plastic waste for use in alkali-ion batteries.

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In 2025, he was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at KU Leuven. His main research interests are the upcycling of waste into functional materials and the characterization of bio-based nanomaterials.

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