Dario Puppi

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ABOUT DARIO PUPPI

Dario Puppi received from the University of Pisa, Italy, an MSc in Chemical Engineering (2005) and a PhD in Biomaterials (2009). He carried out research stays at various foreign universities, including Tampere University of Technology (Finland), University of Sheffield (UK) and University of Minho (Portugal). He then worked as a post-doc on various research projects at the National Research Council, CNR (Italy) and the University of Pisa (Italy). In September 2019 he was appointed as a Junior Researcher and in January 2022 as a Senior Researcher at the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry at the University of Pisa (Italy). From January 2025 he has been employed as an Associate Professor of Industrial Chemistry in the same department. His research interests mainly concern the investigation of synthetic and natural polymers to develop polymeric materials for biomedical, pharmaceutical, and other industrial applications. He is the co-author of more than seventy scientific articles in peer-reviewed international journals, nine book chapters, four patents, and various invited oral presentations at international conferences (citations > 3600, h-index: 32, based on Scopus database). He was included on the Stanford/Elsevier list, which highlights the top 2% of scientists cited globally in 2022 and 2023. Specialties: Industrial Chemistry, Materials Science and Technology, Biomaterials, Additive Manufacturing, Electrospinning.