Vincenzo Maria Sglavo

Via Sommarive, 9 - 38123 Povo
tel. 0461 282468
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Formazione
Laurea con lode in Ingegneria dei Materiali presso l'Università di Trento (15 novembre 1988)
Carriera accademica ed attività didattica

Appointments

Full Professor of Materials Science and Technology Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento, Italy, 2019 to date)
Associated Professor of Materials Science and Technology (Faculty of Engineering - Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento, Italy, 1999-2018)
Adjunct Professor (Materials Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, USA, 2001)
Post Doctoral Fellow (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, USA, 1993-1994)
Assistant professor (Department of Materials Engineering, University of Trento, Italy, 1989-1999)

 

Teaching and research activity

Course of Technologies and applied chemistry for environment protection (University of Trento, 1995-2000)

Course of Ceramic processing and engineering - in English (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento, 1995 to date)
Course of Glass engineering - in English (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento, 2005 to date)

Course of Materials Science - in Italian (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento, 2021 to date)

Teacher at the International Doctoral School of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Trento

Teacher of Innovative Materials Technology at the TrentinoArtAcademy, Trento, Italy


Advisor of more than 100 “laurea” (Master) thesis and of 34 PhD students


Manager and supervisor for more than 50 research projects funded by Italian and foreign private companies, NATO, Italian government, European Community and University of Trento

Referee for several international scientific journals and advisor for Italian, German, French, Austrian, Israeli, Serbian, Brazilian, Czech and Russian governments for the evaluation of research&development projects

Interessi di ricerca

Fatigue and fracture phenomena in glasses and ceramics

Chemical strengthening of glass by ion-exchange

Design and production of high strength-high reliability glasses and ceramics

Innovative methods for the consolidation of ceramics (flash sintering, cold sintering, UHS)

Materials for Solid Oxides Fuel Cells (SOFC) and for Solid Oxide Electrolysers (SOE)

3D printing of inorganic materials

Attività di ricerca

Author of more than 250 scientific papers and of 12 patents

• Associated Editor of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society

• Associated Editor of the International Journal of Ceramic Engineering and Science (IJCES) - The American Ceramic Society

• Member of the American Ceramic Society and the Society of Glass Technology

• Member of the Italian association of professional engineers

Appartenenza a società e comitati scientifici

Membro dell'Associazione Italiana di Ingegneria dei Materiali (AIMAT), dell'American Ceramic Society, della Society of Glass Technology e International Institute for the Science of Sintering.

Iscritto all'ordine degli Ingegneri della Provincia di Trento.

 

Premi e riconoscimenti

AIMAT price, Napoli, Settembre 1996.

AIAS price, Lucca, Settembre 2000.

Outstanding Reviewer Award, Scripta Materialia 2019.

Winner of the Pfeil Award, Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining, 2022.

Second Award in the Article Papers category for the Nanomaterials 2023 Best Paper Award.

Fellow of the European Ceramic Society, 2023.