Ignazio BLANCO

Prof. Blanco has authored and/or co-authored 168 documents indexed on Scopus, 3 chapters in books, and more than 100 proceedings at national and international conferences. The publication records have received 4476 citations, and his h-index is 40. Prof. Blanco, since 2020, has been included in the Top 2% world's Scientists by Stanford University

Research activities are focused on the following themes:

- Synthesis and characterization of toughened thermoset blends;

- Process technology of polymeric fibre-reinforced composites;

- Heat Capacities, Fusion, Solid to solid transition of a series of organic molecules

- Comparative kinetic study of the thermal degradation of model polymers

- Comparative kinetic study of the thermal degradation of nanocomposites

- Synthesis and characterization of aromatic copolymers.

- Thermal characterization of films used in food packaging applications

- Synthesis and characterization of nanoparticles

- POSS synthesis and characterization

- Material characterization for rapid prototyping

Elected General Secretary of the International Confederation for Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (ICTAC) (2024); Elected Member of the Board of the Italian Association of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (AICAT) (2026); Chairperson of the Standards & Nomenclature Scientific Committees of the International Confederation for Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (2022-2024); Elected Coordinator of the Interdivisional Group of Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis (GICAT) of the Italian Society of Chemistry (2023-2025). Editor in Chief of Hybrid Advances (Elsevier); Advisory Editorial Board Member of Applied Surface Science Advances (Elsevier); Senior Editors of Thermal Advances (Elsevier); Editorial Advisory Board Member of Science and Engineering of Composite Materials (De Gruyter); Editorial Board Member of Polymers (MDPI); Editorial Board Member of Journal of Composites Science (MDPI); Editorial Board Member of Thermo (MDPI); Advisory Board Member of Sci (MDPI). Elected Coordinator of the bachelor’s degree in Civil, Environmental, and Management Engineering. Grant proposal reviewer for the National Science Center, Poland, grant proposal reviewer for the Kazakhstan National Center of Science and Technology Evaluation, grant proposal reviewer for the French National Research Agency (ANR), grant proposal reviewer for the Qatar National Research Fund, and member of the Evaluation Committee of the Journal of Composites Science 2019 Travel Award.