first name: Elisabetta family name: FINOCCHIO

Working Address: Istituto di Chimica,

e-mail at: icibusca@csita.unige.it

Date of birth: 07/04/1967, in Alassio (Savona), Italy Nationality: Italian

• Master Degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology at Genoa University, on the 9th of July 1992, with the mark of 110/110 "cum laude".
• Master Degree in Pharmacy at Genoa University, on the 4th of November 1993, with the mark of 110/110.
• Ph.D. (1993-1997) at Genoa University, "Chemistry for Engineering" School, Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering (tutor Prof. V. Lorenzelli). Degree thesis about: "Active sites and mechanism for light hydrocarbons conversion over transition metal oxide catalysts"
• Since April 1998: Post-doctoral student at the Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy. Study on hydrocarbons and VOCs (including halogenated compounds) catalytic oxidation and combustion.

Languages:

Italian as mother-tongue, good level English and French.

Heterogeneously catalyzed oxidation and combustion of hydrocarbons and VOCs, activation of C-H bonds: IR spectroscopy and flow reactor studies.

Techniques: surface characterization techniques, FT-IR spectroscopy, UV-Vis spectroscopy, GC, GC-MS, HPLC and extraction techniques, laboratory catalytic reactors.

• III National School of Catalysis, Rimini, Italy, 1994, (grant of SNAMPROGETTI S.p.A., S. Donato Milanese, Milano, Italy).
• Visiting Research Scholar at Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Catalysis Laboratory (Prof. R.J. Willey) (10/07/1995-10/12/1995).

Topics: catalytic activity tests on laboratory reactors.

• Stage at the "Laboratoire Catalyse et Spectrochimie", ISMRa, (Institut des Sciences de la Matière et du Rayonnement), Université de Caen, France (Prof. J.C. Lavalley), (European Community grant, Training and Mobility of Researchers, contract N. FMRX-CT96-0060)

Topics: IR spectroscopy characterization of mixed oxide catalysts for cars converters

(16/03/1997-17/07/1997).

17 full papers published in J. of Catal., J. of Chemical Society Faraday Transactions, Catalysis Today, J. of Molecular Catalysis, Appl. Catalysis, 30 communications to scientific meetings.