Prof. Pier Giorgio Pifferi
R & D Director
- Pier Giorgio Pifferi was born in Sassuolo (Modena, Italy) on 15th September 1932.
- In 1957 he received a Laurea degree in Chemistry from Bologna University.
- During the years 1958 and 1959 he worked, respectively, as a chemist in a technical laboratory and as managing director of production at Marazzi Ceramic Tile Group and San Giorgio Tile Group, Sassuolo.
- During the years 1960 and 1961 he worked as a Fellow at CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) and was a scholarship holder at the Institute of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, University of Padova, and then as assistant professor of Food Chemistry until 1965.
- In 1966 he joined the Faculty of Industrial Chemistry of Bologna where he worked as an associate professor in Quantitative Chemical Analysis until 1970 and as an associate professor in Inorganic Industrial Chemistry from 1970 to 1982.
- From 1971 to 1980 he worked as a lecturer of Inorganic Industrial Chemistry at the Faculty of Industrial Chemistry, University of Bologna.
- From 1980 to 2001 he worked as a full time professor in Food Technology at the Faculty of Industrial Chemistry, University of Bologna, and served as director of the Specialization School of Food Chemistry and Technologies from 1988 to 2000.
- From 1989 to 1998 he worked as coordinator of the PhD in "Applied Biocatalysis and Industrial Fermentations".
- From 2001 to 2005 he worked as a grant professor of "Unit Operations of Food Technologies" at the University of Verona.
- He is inventor of 30 patents in Food Chemistry (one recent example is the "selenium potato"), Chemical Technology and Enzyme Technology.
- Since 2001 he has been the Research & Development Director of I.D.Tech S.r.l., Bologna
