Short biography

Professor Silvia Gross obtained master’s degree in chemistry in 1996 from the University of Padova and a PhD in “Chemical Sciences” from the same university in 2001. In the same year, she joined the Technische Universität Wien as Lise Meitner Post-doc. In 2002 she was appointed as Researcher at the Italian National Council (CNR) and eventually as Senior Reseacher in 2010. In 2017 she got a position as Full Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Padova. Since 2012 she is regularly visiting professor at Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen (2 months every year) and since 2025 she is Liebig-Professor at this university.  She has a second affiliation as a DFG Mercator Fellow at the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie within the DFG-funded SFB “Track-Act” project (2021-2028). Since 2021 she coordinates the international Master degree “Sustainable Chemistry and Technologies for Circular Economy”, gathering together 12 Departments of the University of Padova.

Research areas

Sustainable low temperature synthesis of inorganic materials
Recovery and recycling of critical and strategic raw materials
Use of Deep Eutectic Solvents for metals and cellulose recovery.
Valorisation of inorganic industrial waste

Publications

Her current research activity is documented by about 210 scientific publications in ISI journals (~ 20 invited reviews, essays, feature articles), 5 books chapters, 1 book edited by RSC, 25 further papers in conference proceedings and technical reports (h-index is 41, Scopus, 2025)