Matteo GIGLI

Position
Associate Professor
Roles
Variable member of the Commission for Knowledge Valorisation (DSMN)
Telephone
041 234 8655
E-mail
matteo.gigli@unive.it
Academic discipline
General and Inorganic Chemistry [CHEM-03/A]
Website
https://www.unive.it/web/en/19197/people/matteo.gigli(personal record)
 https://www.unive.it/ppm
Office
Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dsmn
Where: Campus scientifico via Torino
Room: room 609 (ALFA building, 6th floor) / research lab 8 (BETA building, 3rd floor), lab 4 (BETA building, 2nd floor)
Office
Interconnected Nord-Est Innovation Ecosystem - Temporary Project Centre
Research Institute
Research Institute for Green and Blue Growth
Safety Role
Preposto di Laboratorio
Responsabile dell’Attività di Didattica e Ricerca in Laboratorio (RDRL)

Office hours

Friday from 11 am to 1 pm by appointment (Room 609 Alfa Building).

Teaching activity current year

Teaching activity previous years

Activities and research skills

Academic discipline
Fondamenti chimici delle tecnologie [CHEM-06/A]
Settore Scientifico Disciplinare (SSD) affine
FONDAMENTI CHIMICI DELLE TECNOLOGIE [CHIM/07]
Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
Internazionale: Europa, America Settentrionale, America Latina, Oceania
Known languages
italiano (scritto: madrelingua parlato: madrelingua)
inglese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
tedesco (scritto: base parlato: base)
(scritto: base parlato: base)
Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
Reviewer per oltre 30 riviste internazionali con IF, tra cui: Accounts of Chemical Research, ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, Acta Biomaterialia, Carbohydrate Polymers, Chemical Engineering Journal, Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Membrane Science

Associate Editor @ Frontiers in Chemistry, Green and Sustainable Chemistry section

Participation as referees of national and international research projects
Referee di progetti per Czech Science Foundation, Czech Republic (2021) e il National Polish Science Centre, nell'ambito del programma “SONATA BIS” (2019);
Main departmental research areas and fields
Area: Biomedicina Linea: Salute e Benessere
Area: Chimica Fisica e Materiali Linea: Chimica Fisica dei materiali
Area: Chimica Fisica e Materiali Linea: Green Chemistry
Area: Chimica Fisica e Materiali Linea: Materiali inorganici
Bio(nano)compositi a base di poliesteri per packaging attivo
SSD:
CHIM/07
Coatings da biomassa residua per trattamento di carta e manoscritti antichi
SSD:
CHEM-06/A
Film a base di nanocristalli di chitina e polifenoli naturali per applicazioni biomedicali
SSD:
CHEM-06/A
Microparticelle di silice da biomassa residua per l'adsorbimento e la fotodegradazione di microinquinanti in matrici acquose
SSD:
CHEM-03/A
Nanoparticelle e microcapsule a base di lignine tecniche per applicazioni in cosmeceutica e nutraceutica
SSD:
CHEM-06/A
Processi di frazionamento di lignine tecniche
SSD:
CHIM/03
Trattamenti ossidativi biocatalitici di lignine tecniche
SSD:
CHEM-03/A
Analysis of the molecular weight distribution of polyesters
Funding body:
ENI SpA
Type:
Conto terzi - Consulenza e analisi
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2022 Length in months: 24
Development of lignin-based high-performance sustainable coatings
Funding body:
Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca
Type:
Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2022 Length in months: 36
Food value chain intelligence and integrative design for the development and implementation of innovative food packaging according to bioeconomic sustainability criteria (QuiPack)
Funding body:
PRIMA Programme supported by the European Union
Type:
Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
Role in the project:
PT
Starting date:
Year: 2024 Length in months: 36
Thorough Upcycling of Rice waste biomass into BiOactive PACKaging via chemoenzymatic processes (TURBOPACK)
Funding body:
European Union Next-GenerationEU – Italian Ministry of University and Research
Type:
PRIN
Role in the project:
PT
Starting date:
Year: 2023 Length in months: 24
Water-born Biobased Hybrid Nanostructures” (BioNano)
Funding body:
Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
Type:
Progetti di Ateneo
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2020 Length in months: 24

Publication highlights

Nassim Afiouni; Amponsah Preko Appiah; Katalin Barta; Veronica Calado; Claudia Crestini; Peter J. Deuss; Matteo Gigli; Chamseddine Guizani; Fatima Ezzahra Khallouk; Wojciech Krasodomski; Heiko Lange; Jean-Pierre Lindner; Pia Löser; Michelle Muzzio; Mojgan Nejad; Antonio Ovejero-Pérez; Arulselvan Ponnudurai; Semiu Abolore Rasaq; Camila A. Rezende; Roberto Rinaldi; Joseph S. M. Samec; Philipp Schäfer; Sibylle M. K. Schwartmann; Seema Singh; Nicholas J. Westwood; Malin Wohlert; Natasha Wrathall; Yulun Zheng; Shida Zuo Commercially available technical lignins: general discussion in FARADAY DISCUSSIONS, vol. 263, pp. 358-373 (ISSN 1364-5498)
DOI 2026, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5115533


Pajer, Nicolò; Ficca, Valerio C. A.; Placidi, Ernesto; Argyropoulos, Dimitris S.; Gigli, Matteo; Crestini, Claudia Engineering Lignin Nanoparticles: A Tandem Fractionation and Enzymatic Oxidation Approach to Control Size and Hydrophobicity in ACS SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY & ENGINEERING, vol. 14, pp. 8233-8243 (ISSN 2168-0485)
DOI 2026, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5117590


Afiouni N.; Appiah A.P.; Barta K.; Brandt-Talbot A.; Calado V.; Castellan I.; Crestini C.; da Costa Lopes A.M.; Deuss P.J.; Galluccio L.; Gigli M.; Guizani C.; Hu C.S.Y.; Klajmon M.; Lange H.; Lindner J.-P.; Nejad M.; Ponnudurai A.; Rasaq S.A.; Rezende C.A.; Rinaldi R.; Samec J.S.M.; Schwartmann S.M.K.; Sgarzi M.; Singh S.; Suss R.; Westwood N.J.; Xiao L.-P. Lignin stabilisation and degradation in lignocellulosic fractionation processes: general discussion in FARADAY DISCUSSIONS, vol. 263, pp. 259-280 (ISSN 1359-6640)
DOI 2026, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5115537


Afiouni N.; Appiah A.P.; Argyropoulos D.S.; Brandt-Talbot A.; Bruijnincx P.C.A.; Calado V.; Crestini C.; da Costa Lopes A.M.; Deuss P.J.; Dieval L.; Dominguez J.C.; Elder T.; Galluccio L.; Gigli M.; Guizani C.; Klajmon M.; Krasodomski W.; Lange H.; Lindner J.-P.; Liu Z.; Luzardo J.; Nejad M.; Ponnudurai A.; Rajagopalan N.; Rasaq S.A.; Rinaldi R.; Samec J.S.M.; Sgarzi M.; Singh S.; Westwood N.J.; Wohlert M. Native lignin solvation and extraction: general discussion in FARADAY DISCUSSIONS, vol. 263, pp. 138-163 (ISSN 1359-6640)
DOI 2026, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5115542


Brandt-Talbot A.; Calado V.; Castellan I.; Crestini C.; Galluccio L.; Gigli M.; Guizani C.; Karpichev Y.; Lange H.; Lindner J.-P.; Nejad M.; Nicolau V.; Ponnudurai A.; Rajagopalan N.; Rinaldi R.; Samec J.S.M.; Schroeter M.; Westwood N.J.; Wohlert M.; Zheng Y. Strategies for compatibilisation of extracted lignin properties with commercial applications: general discussion in FARADAY DISCUSSIONS, vol. 263, pp. 459-478 (ISSN 1359-6640)
DOI 2026, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5115536


List of publications

Curriculum vitae

After the Master Degree in Chemical and Process Engineering in 2009, Matteo Gigli completed his Ph.D. in 2013 with a Thesis entitled “Novel etheroatom containing aliphatic polyesters for biomedical and environmental applications”. The research was carried out at the Dept. of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering (DICAM) of the University of Bologna, where he has also been employed as Postdoctoral Fellow.
From November 2013 to May 2015, he worked as Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Freiburg (Germany) as a member of the BASF Joint Research Network on Advanced Materials and Systems (JONAS). From March 2016 to August 2019 he was appointed as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dept. of Chemical Science and Tecnologies of the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.
Among various experiences abroad, Matteo joined the Department of Chemical Engineering of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as visiting scholar in summer 2017 and 2018, he was visiting researcher at the Advanced Materials & Systems Research Centre of BASF in Ludwigshafen (Germany) in 2011, and in 2008 he carried out his Master Thesis research work at the Unit of Bioengineering of the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) within the Erasmus program framework.

He is author of 47 publications on peer-reviewed international journals, 3 patents and contributed with over 30 oral and poster presentations to national and international conferences. His current H-index is 20.

Matteo has been awarded in 2013 with the Future Leaders in Chemistry Prize by CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, and in 2014 with the PhD Best Thesis Award by the Italian Association of Chemistry for Engineering (AICIng).

His research interests are mainly devoted to the development innovative functional materials and nanostructures for sustainable applications:

  • natural polyphenol-based nanoparticles and nanocapsules for the release of active compounds
  • biodegradable and bio-based polymers and (nano)composites for active packaging purposes
  • biocompatible polymers, hydrogels, shape-memory materials and thermoplastic elastomers for biomedical applications
  • polymer electrolytes and separators for energy applications

LinkedIn: https://it.linkedin.com/in/matteo-gigli-5539336b
Publons: https://publons.com/researcher/1736332/matteo-gigli/