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	Rientro dei Cervelli
	Nick Serpone
	A senior academic, research scientist, program manager and industry consultant with extensive North American and International experience. Many years of close collaboration with Canadian, American, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, and European scientists, and working sabbaticals in France, Italy, Switzerland and the United States, have given him an intimate knowledge of the working relationships between academia, industry and government agencies in various countries. As Program Director at the National Science Foundation (1998-2001), Washington, DC, he co-managed and recommended funding for many of America’s most prestigious researchers. A prolific editor and contributor to numerous books and journals, with over 360 papers published in a variety of prestigious journals, he was the 1997 recipient of the “Best Paper Award” from the Society for Imaging Science and Technology. An industry consultant, he has had a long and fruitful relationship with the 3M Company in the United States and was the founding partner and Vice-President of a company established (with David Ollis of North Carolina State University) to develop a commercial technology for environmental pollution abatement. A skilled organizer, efficient, professional and analytical, he has chaired numerous organizing committees, review panels and appeal boards at the provincial, national and international (NSF & DOE) levels, and was a member of a Task Force of the US National Academy of Sciences (1990-1991). Fluently trilingual, written and spoken, and an effective communicator, both horizontally and vertically, he is also a frequent Keynote Address Speaker and Invited Plenary Lecturer.
			Area di interesse Chimica Programma Rientro dei Cervelli 2002-2006 Occupazione corrente Programma Rientro dei Cervelli Sede Dipartimento di Chimica Organica Università di Pavia Altre Informazioni CV in pdf
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