Paolo Colombo

Paolo Colombo is professor of Materials Science and Technology in the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, where he earned a degree in chemical engineering in 1985 and a diploma in glass engineering in 1988. He was assistant professor at University of Padova (1990–1998) and associate professor at the University of Bologna (1998–2005). He is also adjunct professor of materials science and engineering at Pennsylvania State University, visiting professor of mechanical engineering at University College London, academic advisor at Harbin Institute of Technology, China, and a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College (UK). He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Pennsylvania State University (1991), Foreign Scientist at INSA, Lyon, France (2015), and DGF Mercator Professor at the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany (2016).

Colombo is president of the International Ceramic Federation and an Academician of the World Academy of Ceramics, Academician of the European Academy of Sciences, Fellow of The American Ceramic Society, The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, and The European Ceramic Society.

He received the Global Star Award (ECD-ACerS), Edward C. Henry Award (ED-ACerS), Global Ambassador Award (ECD-ACerS), Bridge Building Award (ECD-ACerS), and awards from other organizations.

Colombo published more than 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals and co-edited two books. His h-index is 70. He has coorganized many international conferences and often speaks on the topic of porous ceramics, polymer-derived-ceramics, and additive manufacturing of ceramics.

He is the editor-in-chief of Open Ceramics and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society; Materials Letters; Ceramics International; Journal of Porous Materials; Journal of Asian Ceramic Societies; and Advances in Applied Ceramics: Structural, Functional and Bioceramics.