Alberto Cavazinni PhD

Alberto Cavazzini has a master's degree in Chemistry and received his Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences from the University of Ferrara in 2000. He was a fellow researcher at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN, USA) and Oak Ridge National Laboratories from 2000 to 2002, in the group of Prof. Georges Guiochon. In 2002, he returned to Italy after accepting an Assistant Professor position at the University of Ferrara, which he held until 2014 when he became Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the same university. Since 2015, he is a Director of graduate and undergraduate programs in Chemistry at the University of Ferrara.

His research activities focus on the field of separation science, particularly in liquid chromatography and chromatographic-like techniques. They include a variety of theoretical, experimental, and applied aspects of linear and nonlinear (preparative) liquid chromatography, reaction chromatography, affinity chromatography, chiral chromatography, stationary phase characterization and development, investigation of mass transfer processes in porous media, the study of retention mechanisms from both a microscopic-probabilistic and macroscopic point of view, modeling of chromatographic retention and, more recently, flow-chemistry and heterogeneous catalysis.