Rate My Professor Enrico Andreolli

Professor Enrico Andreoli serves as Professor in Chemical Engineering and Head of the Chemical Engineering Department within the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Swansea University, part of the Faculty of Science and Engineering. He is the Carbon Capture & Utilisation (CCU) expert and leads the CCU group at the Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI). His academic interests include carbon capture and utilisation, industrial decarbonisation, low carbon energy, CO2 capture materials, CO2 conversion catalysis, materials science & engineering, chemistry & electrochemistry, and energy transport materials. Andreoli develops materials and processes for sustainable energy using an across-scales approach, emphasizing carbon dioxide capture and utilisation technologies to facilitate industrial decarbonisation at scale.

A graduate of the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Andreoli obtained his PhD in Chemistry in 2010 for his thesis 'Electrochemical Deposition of Copper and Zinc Nanomaterials at Polypyrrole Thin Films,' supervised by Prof. Carmel B. Breslin and Dr. Denise A. Rooney; he also holds an M.Sc. Following postdoctoral research in the Chemistry Department at Rice University, Texas, he joined Swansea University in 2014 as Senior Lecturer, progressing to Professor. His honors include Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2018), UK Digital Economy Alumnus (2017), Welsh Crucible Alumnus, Future Research Leaders of Wales (2015), FÀS Science Challenge Internship (2009), and Giorgio Foschini Prize, XI Edition (2002). Notable publications are 'Overcoming mass transfer limitations in cross-linked polyethyleneimine-based adsorbents to enable selective CO2 capture at ambient temperature' (Hamdy et al., Materials Advances, 2021), 'Oxygen depolarised cathode as a learning platform for CO2 gas diffusion electrodes' (Hernandez-Aldave & Andreoli, Catalysis Science and Technology, 2022), 'The application of amine-based materials for carbon capture and utilisation: an overarching view' (Hamdy et al., Materials Advances, 2021), 'Investigation into the Re-Arrangement of Copper Foams Pre- and Post-CO2 Electrocatalysis' (Rudd et al., Chemistry, 2021), and 'CO2-to-ethylene electroreduction gets a boost' (Andreoli, Nature Catalysis, 2021). He collaborates with academic partners including University of Oxford, Heriot-Watt University, Cardiff University, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Missouri University of Science and Technology, and Rice University, as well as industrial entities such as Industrie De Nora and Tata Steel. Andreoli presented an invited talk on 'Carbon dioxide electrocatalysis at copper foam electrodes' at the 2019 European Materials Research Society Fall meeting in Warsaw, Poland.