SHORT CV
MARCO SANGERMANO
Marco Sangermano took his Laurea Degree in Organic Chemistry at the University of Turin. After a
period of 6 months in Bruxelles at the Universitèe Libre de Bruxelles with a grant fellowship, he
joined the Politecnico di Torino, in Italy, as a PhD student. He undertook his PhD on cationic
photopolymerization of propenyl and vinyl ether monomers. He spent part of his PhD at the
Perstorp Company in Sweden synthesizing new propenyl ether monomers and at the University of
Mulhouse with Prof. Decker performing real-time FT-IR kinetics studies. After his PhD graduation,
in January 2000, he spent one year as a post-doc with Professor Crivello at RPI in Troy New York,
USA.
The following three years were spent in a post-doc fellowship at the Polytechnic Institute of Turin
at the Material Science and Chemical Engineering Department. Marco Sangermano was appointed
as Assistant Professor at the same Department starting from January 2004 and Associate Professor
starting from December 2010.
Marco Sangermano has the normal academic load of teaching, administration and research at the
Politecnico di Torino. His teaching duties are part of the Materials Engineering Course and are also
part of the Course of Polymer Science and Technologies, as well as Rubber and Tire Technologies
for Automotive Engineers.
In 2007 Marco Sangermano was awarded with a Alexander von Humboldt award and he spent a
period of 6 months at IPF in Dresden, Germany. In 2009 he was awarded a grant from the Foreign
Ministry and spent a period of 2 months as visiting scientist at McGill University in Montreal,
Canada. In 2010 Prof Sangermano was awarded a Monash University European Travel grant and
spent one month as a visiting scientist at the Department of Materials Engineering at Monash. In
2011 he awarded from CSACS (Center for Self-Assembled Chemical Structure) to spedn a period
of one month as visiting professor at McGill Univeristy, Montreal, Canada, at Chemical department.
In 2013 he was Invited Scientist at Ecole Polytechnique Federal Lausanne, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
working together with Prof. Yves Leterrier in the frame of an international cooperation developing new UVcured films with magnetic properties and than he was Visiting Scientist at LSI in Polytechnique de Palaiseau,
Paris, France, working in the development of self-assembly magnetic nanoparticles.
The quality and the level of the research of Marco Sangermano is evidenced by his high citation
report in the ISI Web of Knowledge which lists about 120 papers published in international journals,
with an H-index of 20.
Currently the main research activities of Marco Sangermano can be divided into 3 main research
lines:
1. Nanostructured polymeric coatings and composites which are achieved by ex-situ or in-situ
methods. Inorganic clusters are generated in-situ via a sol-gel process, and metal nanoaprticles, such
as silver or gold, are generated in-situ via a photoreduction process
2. Advanced polymers in which multifunctional acrylic, epoxy or thiol-ene based polymers are
formed by using UV-induced polymerization.
3. Functionalized polymeric coatings: in which the surface properties of UV-cured coatings have
been extensively modified by adding a very low amount of fluorinated additives. All of these areas
of research are relevant to the current proposal.