Alfred L. Loomis Award – Giancarlo Cravotto

The 4th Alfred L. Loomis Award was awarded to Giancarlo Cravotto for his continuing dedication to the sonochemistry community

Giancarlo Cravotto is Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Department of Drug Science and Technology in the University of Turin, Italy. Giancarlo’s research activity in the domain of green organic synthesis and processing, is documented by 630 peer-reviewed scientific papers (H index 90 with over 35,800 citations by Google Scholar; H index 77 with 26,800 citations by Scopus), 24 patents, 57 book chapters and 7 books as editor, and more than 600 communications to scientific meetings, including several invited plenary and keynote lectures. The extraction, purification, synthesis and chemical modification of bioactive natural products has been the focus of his research activity. These studies have paved the way for new, non-conventional energy source driven synthetic procedures (ultrasound, hydrodynamic cavitation, microwaves, mechanochemistry, reactive extruders, flow chemistry, etc.), while also prompting the development of innovative hybrid reactors.

Besides his scientific contribution, Giancarlo served as ESS President between 2012 and 2018, is member of the Italian Chemical Society and the American Chemical Society, and has several editorial board roles in scientific journals.