Dr. Fabio Di Lena

(i) Developing new functional surfaces for applications in automotive, mass transportation, and healthcare industries; (ii) Project and people management; (iii) Technology scouting; (iv) Intellectual property enforcement.

(i) Headed the Biopolymers group (2 scientists, 1 postdoc, 2 PhD students, and 3 technicians) within the Biomaterials Lab; (ii) Designed and managed research projects in the field of bioactive polymers (polymer therapeutics, biocidal polymers, etc.) and microencapsulation (agrochemicals, etc.).

(i) Designed, coordinated and managed projects in the field of smart polymer materials; (ii) Trained and supervised PhD students and Postdocs;

(i) Applied molecular informatics to the design of catalysts for controlled polymerization reactions; (ii) Used naturally occurring, metal-containing molecules as polymerization catalysts. (iii) Synthesized "smart" polymeric materials for delivery applications.

Developed MS methodologies to study ATRP catalysts and polymers.

Mechanism-based development of catalytic systems for the polymerization of 1-alkenes by means of mass spectrometry and numerical simulations

Kinetic investigations of metallocene-catalyzed olefin polymerizations by means of "quenched-flow" methods