Jose Kenny

Prof. Dr. Jose Kenny

University of Perugia - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Biography

Prof. Jose M. Kenny recently retired from his position as Full Professor of Materials Science and Technology and Director of the Materials Science and Technology Centre of the University of Perugia in Italy. He is also the Director of the European Centre for Nanostructured Polymers with headquarters in Florence (Italy) and operative locations in Italy (Terni, Alessandria), France (Lyon), and Spain (Madrid). He has also been a Research Professor and Vice Director at the Institute of Polymer Science and Technology of CSIC in Madrid (Spain), where he directed a research group on nanostructured polymers and nanocomposites. Prof. Kenny graduated in Chemistry from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and obtained his PhD at the University of the South (Bahia Blanca, Argentina). He has been a visiting professor at several European and American Universities was President of SAMPE EUROPE from 2001–2002, and is currently Past President, Trustee, and Fellow of the European Society for Advanced Materials and Process Engineering (SAMPE). From 2008–2013 Prof. Kenny coordinated the European Network of Excellence on Nanostructured Polymers and Nanocomposites, in 2011, he received the SAMPE Fellow Award in 2012, he received the RAICES Award from the Ministry of Research and Innovation of Argentina, and in 2014, he was awarded the Mega-Grant of the Russian Federation for the Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Thermoplastic Polymer Composites and Nanocomposites.

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