In 2015, Mattia Felice Palermo earned his Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry from the Department of Industrial Chemistry at the University of Bologna. His research, which continued into his post-doctoral work in 2016 in the same department, focused on the modelling of liquid crystalline materials via molecular dynamics simulations, both in the bulk and at their interfaces with vacuum, water, and polymers.

Later, he transitioned to the field of industrial coating, working as an R&D chemist for Sherwin-Williams Italy. During this time, he engaged with polyurethane, polyester, and Michael Addition chemistry based products, participating in the development of new formulations and in the optimization of production processes.

From 2021, he headed the Computational Chemistry group at GES - Green Energy Storage. In this position, he led the development of novel computational chemistry and cheminformatics workflows for predicting the electrochemical properties of electrolytes for redox flow batteries. Alongside this, he held the position of IT Manager within the company, where he was responsible for the setup and management of the High-Performance Computing infrastructure, and for the direction and implementation of technological strategies to support the company operations.

In November 2023 he joined CIC energiGUNE as a researcher in the Computational Modeling and Simulation group.

• Molecular Dynamics and Quantum Mechanical simulation methods to predict energy material properties
• High-throughput techniques for computational screening of compounds and materials
• Energy storage materials

• Redox-flow batteries
• Coating formulation, materials, and polymers
• Bulk and interfacial properties of liquid crystalline materials
• Theoretical chemistry