Education
2022 | Ph.D. (cum laude), Industrial Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
2018 | M.Sc. (cum laude), Chemical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
2018 | Excellence program diploma, Alta Scuola Politecnica, Politecnico di Milano e Politecnico di Torino
2016 | B.Sc. (cum laude), Ingegneria Chimica e dei Materiali, Università degli Studi di Padova
Current position
2023 | Researcher (Junior assistant professor), Politecnico di Milano
Research exchange
2022 (march – september) | Visiting graduate researcher at Argonne National Laboratory, IL, USA, Chemical Science and Engineering division (Dr. S. J. Klippenstein)
2016 (march – july)| BSc thesis at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, KSA (solar center)
Research activity
- Ab initio calculations of rate constants and thermochemical properties
- Automated procedures for rate constant calculations
- Lumping of kinetic schemes and reactivity on complex PESs
- Kinetic modeling of pyrolysis and oxidation processes of both conventional and renewable fuels
Awards
2023 | Best paper award for the “Gas phase kinetics” section of the 39th International symposium of Combustion
2020 | Cover paper for Reaction Chemistry and Engineering journal (Marzo 2020)
2019 | MSc award “Gabriele Corbelli”, Rotary Club
2018 – 2021 | PhD scolarship, Ministero dell’Istruzione, Università e Ricerca
Teaching activities
2023 | Practical sessions for Chemical Engineering project laboratory
2019-2022 | Practical sessions for the course “Sperimentazione Industriale” (basic statistics) (prof. A. Frassoldati)
2018-2021 | Tutoring activity for the course “Chemical Reaction Engineering” (prof. A. Cuoci)
Selected publications
- Pratali Maffei, K. B. Moore III, Y. Georgievskii, C. R. Mulvihill, S. N. Elliott, J. Cho, R. Sivaramakrishnan, T. Faravelli, S. J. Klippenstein, Automated identification and calculation of prompt effects in kinetic mechanisms using statistical models, Combustion and Flame (2023), in press, doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2022.112422
- Pratali Maffei, M. Pelucchi, R.D. Büttgen, K.A. Heufer, T. Faravelli, C. Cavallotti, Rate constants for the H-abstraction reactions from mono-aromatic hydrocarbons by H, CH3, OH and 3O2: a systematic theoretical investigation, Combustion and Flame (2023), in press, doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2022.112421
- Pratali Maffei, M. Pelucchi, T. Faravelli, C. Cavallotti, Theoretical Kinetics of HO2+C5H5: a Missing Piece in Cyclopentadienyl Radical Oxidation Reactions, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute (2022), in press, doi:10.1016/j.proci.2022.08.020
- Nobili, L. Pratali Maffei, A. Baggioli, M. Pelucchi, A. Cuoci, C. Cavallotti, T. Faravelli, On the radical behavior of large polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in soot formation and oxidation, Combustion and Flame 235 (2021), 111692, doi: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2021.111692
- Pratali Maffei, M. Pelucchi, C. Cavallotti, A. Bertolino, T. Faravelli, Master equation lumping for multi-well potential energy surfaces: A bridge between ab initio based rate constant calculations and large kinetic mechanisms, Chemical Engineering Journal 422 (2021), 129954, doi:10.1016/J.CEJ.2021.129954
- Pratali Maffei, T. Faravelli, C. Cavallotti, M. Pelucchi, Electronic structure-based rate rules for H ipso addition-elimination reactions on mono-aromatic hydrocarbons with single and double OH/CH3/OCH3/CHO/C2H5 substituents: a systematic theoretical investigation", Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 22 (2020), 20368–20387, doi: 10.1039/d0cp03099f
- Cavallotti, C. De Falco, L. Pratali Maffei, A. Caracciolo, G. Vanuzzo, N. Balucani, P. Casavecchia, Theoretical Study of the Extent of Intersystem Crossing in the O(3P) + C6H6 Reaction with Experimental Validation, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 11 (2020), 9621–9628, doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c02866
- Pratali Maffei, M. Pelucchi, T. Faravelli, C. Cavallotti, Theoretical study of sensitive reactions in phenol decomposition, Reaction Chemistry and Engineering 5 (2020), 452–472, doi:10.1039/c9re00418a
