Dr. Leonarda Francesca Liotta

Leonarda Francesca Liotta is chemist and Director of Research and Deputy Director of the Palermo branch of the Institute for the Study of Nanostructured Materials (ISMN)-CNR. She is also a member of the Scientific Board of the CNR Department of Chemical Sciences and Materials Technologies, DSCTM-CNR. She is the co-author of 250 articles in peer-reviewed internal journals, 8 book chapters, and 1 PCT Int. Appl. WO patent. She has contributed to more the 400 international and national conferences and informative works, with and h-index of 54 (Scopus, 2024). She was mentioned in a list of the top 2% most cited scientists in the world published by Stanford University. She has been a researcher at the Universities of Lyon, Lille, Dunkirk, Sorbonne Paris, Valencia, Sevilla, Budapest, Sofia, Tosmk State University, amd Magurele. Her main interests are in the field of heterogeneous catalysis (supported noble metals, transition metal oxides, and inorganic perovskites) and materials science applied to environmental remediation (NO SCR, VOCs, and soot oxidation) and clean energy production/storage (dry/steam reforming, CO2 methanation, SOFCs, SOECs, and batteries).