Raffaele Mezzenga is a soft condensed matter scientist, currently heading the Laboratory of Food and Soft Materials at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.[1] He is among the 0.1% most cited scientists according to the Clarivate 2023 Highly Cited Researchers list in the cross-field discipline.

Education

Prof. Mezzenga received his M.S. in Materials Science (1997) from Perugia University in Italy, while actively working for the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) and NASA (NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS91), followed by a PhD in the field of Polymer Physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland (2001).

Research and career

Mezzenga did postdoctoral research on semiconductive polymer colloids[2] at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and then moved to the Nestlé Research Center in Lausanne as research scientist, working on the self-assembly of surfactants, natural amphiphiles and lyotropic liquid crystals.[3][4] In 2005 he was hired as Associate Professor in the Physics Department of the University of Fribourg, and he then joined ETH Zurich[5] on 2009 as Full Professor.

His research mainly focuses on the fundamental understanding of self-assembly processes in polymers, lyotropic liquid crystals, biological and food colloidal systems. His work has led to over 400 scientific publications and about 20 patents. He has made seminal contributions to several fields of soft condensed matter such as in protein aggregation, biopolymers and surfactants self-organisation.[6] He has pioneered the use of protein-based materials in the establishment of new technologies for environmental remediation, health and advanced materials design.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]

Awards and honours

Prof. Mezzenga was the recipient of the 2011 John H. Dillon Medal[15] by the American Physical Society. He was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2017.[16] Other awards include the 2011 Young Scientist Research Award of the American Oil Chemist Society, the 2013 Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Young Investigator Award[17][18] of the American Chemical Society and the 2019 Spark Award[19] for the most promising ETH Zurich invention in 2019.

Mezzenga served as an Executive, Associate and Guest Editor for various journals including Food Biophysics, Food Hydrocolloids, Polymer International, Trends in Food Science, and has been a board member of Swiss Chemical Society[20] for over 15 years.

References

  1. ↑ "Group Head". fsm.ethz.ch. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
  2. ↑ Mezzenga, Raffaele; Ruokolainen, Janne; Fredrickson, Glenn H.; Kramer, Edward J.; Moses, Daniel; Heeger, Alan J.; Ikkala, Olli (2003-03-21). "Templating Organic Semiconductors via Self-Assembly of Polymer Colloids". Science. 299 (5614): 1872–1874. doi:10.1126/science.1081334. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 12649476. S2CID 34029146.
  3. ↑ Mezzenga, Raffaele; Schurtenberger, Peter; Burbidge, Adam; Michel, Martin (2005). "Understanding foods as soft materials". Nature Materials. 4 (10): 729–740. doi:10.1038/nmat1496. ISSN 1476-4660. PMID 16195765. S2CID 35934126.
  4. ↑ Mezzenga, Raffaele; Meyer, Cedric; Servais, Colin; Romoscanu, Alexandre I.; Sagalowicz, Laurent; Hayward, Ryan C. (2005-04-01). "Shear Rheology of Lyotropic Liquid Crystals: A Case Study". Langmuir. 21 (8): 3322–3333. doi:10.1021/la046964b. ISSN 0743-7463. PMID 15807570.
  5. ↑ Sciences, Address ETH Zürich Dep of Health; Lebensm.wiss, Technology Prof Dr Raffaele Mezzenga Inst f; Ern.; Switzerl, Ges LFO E. 23 Schmelzbergstrasse 9 8092 Zürich. "Mezzenga, Raffaele, Prof. Dr. | ETH Zurich". hest.ethz.ch. Retrieved 2020-08-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ Mezzenga, Raffaele; Seddon, John M.; Drummond, Calum J.; Boyd, Ben J.; Schröder‐Turk, Gerd E.; Sagalowicz, Laurent (2019). "Nature-Inspired Design and Application of Lipidic Lyotropic Liquid Crystals". Advanced Materials. 31 (35): 1900818. doi:10.1002/adma.201900818. ISSN 1521-4095. PMID 31222858. S2CID 205290115.
  7. ↑ Bolisetty, Sreenath; Mezzenga, Raffaele (2016). "Amyloid–carbon hybrid membranes for universal water purification". Nature Nanotechnology. 11 (4): 365–371. doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.310. ISSN 1748-3395. PMID 26809058. S2CID 205453724.
  8. ↑ Shen, Yi; Posavec, Lidija; Bolisetty, Sreenath; Hilty, Florentine M.; Nyström, Gustav; Kohlbrecher, Joachim; Hilbe, Monika; Rossi, Antonella; Baumgartner, Jeannine; Zimmermann, Michael B.; Mezzenga, Raffaele (2017). "Amyloid fibril systems reduce, stabilize and deliver bioavailable nanosized iron". Nature Nanotechnology. 12 (7): 642–647. doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.58. ISSN 1748-3395. PMID 28436960.
  9. ↑ Nyström, Gustav; Fernández‐Ronco, María P.; Bolisetty, Sreenath; Mazzotti, Marco; Mezzenga, Raffaele (2016). "Amyloid Templated Gold Aerogels". Advanced Materials. 28 (3): 472–478. doi:10.1002/adma.201503465. ISSN 1521-4095. PMID 26592185. S2CID 7237006.
  10. ↑ "A Cheap Cure for Flint? Scientists Tout New Fix for Tainted Water". NBC News. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  11. ↑ "Science 3/2 Assainir l'eau polluée avec du charbon et du petit-lait (ne pas republier en ligne)". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2016-01-26. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  12. ↑ "Innovativer Wasserfilter: Wie Molkenprotein Wasser von Schadstoffen befreit". www.spektrum.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  13. ↑ World, Emma Stoye,Chemistry. "Lightest Gold Nugget Ever--20 Carats--Sits On A Feather". Scientific American. Retrieved 2020-09-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. ↑ "An 18-carat gold nugget made of plastic". phys.org. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  15. ↑ "APS 2011 John H. Dillon Medal to Raffaele Mezzenga". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  16. ↑ "APS Fellowship". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  17. ↑ "Young Investigator Awards To Lynn And Mezzenga". Chemical & Engineering News. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
  18. ↑ "awards/biomacromolecules/macromol awardees". old.polyacs.org. Retrieved 2020-08-16.
  19. ↑ "Spark Award 2019". ethz.ch. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
  20. ↑ "Contacts". scg.ch. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
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