Information

Membership Number: FCA2519

Membership Type: Fellowship

Division: Engineering and Applied Sciences

Corresponding Email: ******colombo@unipd.it

Homepage(s): https://research.dii.unipd.it/ceramglass/ 

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Present and Previous Positions

Professor of Materials Science and Technology at the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Adjunct professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University

Visiting professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of University College London

Honorary Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of University College London, UK

Honorary Researcher at the Henan Academy of Sciences, Zhengzhou, Henan, CN

Honorary Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, CN

He was a Foreign Scientist at INSA, Lyon, France in 2015, a DGF Mercator Professor at the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany in 2016, an Academic Advisor at the Institute for Advanced Ceramics, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China in 2022/23 and in 2025, and a Visiting Professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil in 2024.

Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests

Paolo Colombo’s research interests include novel processing routes to architected glasses and ceramics (currently focusing mainly on Additive Manufacturing, using different technologies), the development of ceramic components from preceramic polymers and geopolymers, and the upcycling of industrial and natural waste.

Honors, Awards and Other Membership

Academician of the World Academy of Ceramics (2006)

Academician of the European Academy of Sciences (2016)

Academician of the Academia Europaea (2024)

Academician of the Italian Academy of Engineering and Technology (2024)

Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (2010)

Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (2011)

Fellow of the European Ceramic Society (2017). 

Paolo Colombo was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for the Pennsylvania State University in 1991, the Pfeil Award (The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, London, UK) in 2007, the Global Star Award (The Engineering Ceramics Division of the American Ceramic Society) in 2010, the Edward C. Henry Award (The Electronics Division of The American Ceramic Society) in 2011, the Verulam Medal & Prize (The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, London, UK) in 2013, the Global Ambassador Award (The American Ceramic Society) in 2016, the Polish Ceramic Society Award in 2019, the Bridge Building Award (The Engineering Ceramics Division of the American Ceramic Society) in 2023, and the ECerS-ACerS Joint Award (European Ceramic Society-American Ceramic Society) in 2024. He is Past President of the International Ceramic Federation (ICF) (2022-2024) and Vice President of the Italian Ceramic Society (2024-2026). He is also a member of the JECS Trust, an officer of the Materials Science Division of the European Academy of Sciences, a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College, and is serving in several committees in International Societies.

Selected Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cqDoNRgAAAAJ&hl=en 

Paolo Colombo has published more than 360 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 9 book chapters and holds 10 international patents. h index (accessed 20/12/2024): Google Scholar = 80; Citations = 24772; Scopus = 70; Citations = 18884; WOS = 65; Citations = 15654. He is co-editor of a book on cellular ceramics, a book on polymer-derived-ceramics, 11 proceedings books and guest editor of 10 Special issues in international scientific journals. He is Editor-in-Chief of Open Ceramics (Elsevier), and is on the editorial board of 10 international scientific journals, has co-organized several international conferences, and has given numerous invited talks in the field of porous ceramics, polymer-derived ceramics and additive manufacturing of ceramics. He was chair of the XVI conference of the European Ceramic Society (Turin, Italy, 16-20/6/2019) and is chair of the Shaping X conference (Padova, 20-23/9/2026).

Other Information

CV Paolo Colombo.pdf