Carmen Galassi

Carmen Galassi is Research Director at CNR-ISTEC (Italy), head of the Research Project «Smart multifunctional ceramic materials: piezoelectrics, ferroelectrics, antiferroelectrics, mul-tiferroics. She is expert in Ceramic processing: powder treatments, shaping and densification Chemicophysical characterization of dispersed ceramic systems R&D on piezoelectric and magnetic ceramics and multifunctional composites. She works on projects coordination and dissemination. She has been Coordinator of a network of 11 Laboratories within the EU Program HCM, Coordinator of the “Free-theme Research Project”entitled “ Study of the rheological and colloidal properties of ceramic disperse systems to optimize ceramic processes and products”(Funded by CNR). Scientific coordinator of the research Unit ISTEC in the CRP ADOPTIC (Additive Optimization for improved ceramics) (EU FP VI). Member of Expert Evaluators Panel for FP7-NMP. In 2005 she participated to a Spin-off Action to establish IPECC srl. In 2019 she received the National Scientific Qualification to function as Full Professor of Materials Science and Technology (2019-24) in Italian Universities. Relevant expertise on: a) Materials science and ceramic processing to develop materials and prototypes. b) Powder treatments and shaping techniques, including colloid chemistry and rheology, c) Piezoelectric ceramic materials and components: synthesis, shaping, densification, piezoelectric properties.Tutor of MSC and PhD students, scentific coordinator of the ISTEC Unit in research contracts with companies. Out of 259 papers co-authored, 168 are published in international, refereed journals.