Dr. Guido Panzarasa
Dr. Guido Panzarasa
Lecturer at the Department of Materials
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Research area
The grand challenge of contemporary materials science is to develop active, self-regulating materials able to perform beyond stimuli-responsiveness. My strategy to achieve this goal is to use complex chemical dynamics, such as those typical of clock and oscillating reactions, to control in the time domain the self-assembly of systems based on molecular, supramolecular, and colloidal building blocks.
Wood, thanks to its unique hierarchical structure, offers exciting possibilities for developing intrinsically sustainable smart materials.
Guido Panzarasa, born 1988, received his PhD in Chemical Sciences from the University of Eastern Piedmont "Amedeo Avogadro" (Alessandria, Italy) in 2016. After a stay as research assistant at Montanuniversitaet (Leoben, Austria), he spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at Empa (St. Gallen, Switzerland).
In 2018 he joined ETHZ in the Laboratory of Soft and Living Materials led by Prof. Eric R. Dufresne (D-MATL), where he developed a completely new line of research on time-domain self-assembly of materials based on a molecular systems engineering (systems chemistry) approach.
In June 2020 he was promoted Group Leader in the Wood Materials Science Laboratory led by Prof. Dr. Ingo Burgert (D-BAUG, D-MATL). His Active and Adaptive Wood Materials group focuses on enabling wood with novel functionalities (including time-programmability), promoting their use for future sustainable smart buildings.
Guido Panzarasa is an active member of many European scientific societies, including the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and the Swiss Chemical Society (SCS). He served as President (2019-2020) of the Swiss Young Chemists' Association (SYCA) which he joined in 2018 as board member and ETHZ representative.
Guido Panzarasa is author and co-author of more than 50 scientific publications in peer-reviewed international journals (Scopus ID: 37064892500). A complete list of publications is available through ORCID. He is an active referee for many scientific journals (Publons ID: 1342330).
Membership
| Since | Membership |
|---|---|
| 2018 | Life Sciences Switzerland (LS2) |
| 2018 | Swiss Young Chemists' Association (SYCA) |
| 2016 | Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
| 2016 | Swiss Chemical Society (SCS) |
| 2011 | Societa' Italiana di Fisica (SIF) - Italian Physical Society |
Honours
| Year | Distinction |
|---|---|
| 2020 | ETH Career Seed Grant "Programmable and transient electrochemical energy devices by molecular design" |
| 2018 | Publons Peer Review Award "for placing in the top 1% of reviewers in Chemistry" |
| 2017 | Outstanding Reviewer for the journal "Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical" (Elsevier) |
| 2017 | Participation grant from the Swiss Chemical Society (SCS) as a speaker and part of the Swiss delegation to the 17th Austrian Chemistry Days (Salzburg, 25-28 September 2017) |
Additional information
Materials Colloquium 2020 presentation "Time and relative dimension in self-assembly: towards a systems chemistry of materials" (https://sam.ethz.ch/index.php/2020/02/28/time-and-relative-dimension-in-self-assembly-towards-a-systems-chemistry-of-materials/)
Course Catalogue
Spring Semester 2024
| Number | Unit |
|---|---|
| 101-0678-00L | Wood Physics & Wood Materials |