Rate My Professor Enrico Andreolli

Professor Enrico Andreoli is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Swansea University, based at the Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI) where he leads the Carbon Capture & Utilisation (CCU) group. He obtained his PhD in Chemistry from Maynooth University in 2010 and a Master's degree in Science, Technology and Management from the University of Ferrara. Following postdoctoral research at Rice University from 2012 to 2014, he joined Swansea University in 2014 as a Senior Lecturer and progressed to Professor. His honors include Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2018), UK Digital Economy Alumnus (2017), Welsh Crucible Alumnus and Future Research Leaders of Wales (2015), F&AS Science Challenge Internship (2009), and Giorgio Foschini Prize, XI Edition (2002). Andreoli co-founded IMPACKT and supervises PhD and MSc students on sustainable biopolymers, high entropy materials, CO2 electrolysis, and platinum electrode recycling.

Andreoli's research focuses on energy and resource sustainability through advanced CO2 capture and utilisation materials for industrial decarbonisation, employing an across-scales approach. His academic interests span industrial decarbonisation, low carbon energy, CO2 capture materials, CO2 conversion catalysis, materials science & engineering, chemistry & electrochemistry, and energy transport materials. He leads projects including RICE, FLEXIS, and SUSTAIN, collaborating with the University of Oxford, Heriot-Watt University, Rice University, Tata Steel, Industrie De Nora, Skytree, and Grove Nanomaterials. Notable publications are "Overcoming mass transfer limitations in cross-linked polyethyleneimine-based adsorbents to enable selective CO2 capture at ambient temperature" (Materials Advances, 2021), "Oxygen depolarised cathode as a learning platform for CO2 gas diffusion electrodes" (Catalysis Science & Technology, 2022), "The application of amine-based materials for carbon capture and utilisation: an overarching view" (Materials Advances, 2020), "Investigation into the Re-Arrangement of Copper Foams Pre- and Post-CO2 Electrocatalysis" (Chemistry, 2021), and "An Optimised Compaction Process for Zr-Fumarate (MOF-801)" (Inorganics, 2019). With 1564 citations on ResearchGate, his work advances practical CCU solutions. He teaches advanced chemistry and materials modules and delivered an inaugural lecture.