Paolo Ferruti's Biography

Paolo Ferruti, Professor, Universita di Milano

Professor Paolo Ferruti obtained his degrees of Chemistry by Oct., 1963 at the historical prestigious college (“Almo Collegio Borromeo”) of Pavia, Italy. Immediately afterwards, Nobel Prize Giulio Natta summoned him at the Polytechnic of Milan where he served as Assistant Professor. In 1968 he went on leave to the University of California, Berkeley, where he collaborated with Nobel Prize Melvin Calvin. In 1975 he was summoned as Full Professor at the University of Naples and subsequently commuted with the same position to the Universities of Bologna , Brescia and Milan. In 2010 he retired from teaching, but is still an official guest of the University of Milan very actively doing research with his former group. Paolo Ferruti is credited with being the inventor of polyamidoamines, having published the first papers on them around 1970. He authored about 300 papers and 50 patents, mostly on polyamidoamines, but also on poly-4-acryloylmorpholine (PACM), PEG and PVP, as well as polymeric cyclodextrins.