Chemistry and energy scholar based at Italy's Research Council, in Palermo, Italy, Mario Pagliaro leads a research team focusing on nanochemistry, sustainability and the bioeconomy. He ranks in the top 2% World Ranking list of Scientists in all fields of science, 2nd amid the world's top 10 bioeconomy scholars, and is amid Italy's most cited scientists in nanotechnology and materials chemistry. Due to "outstanding achievements as a researcher" in 2021 he was elected ordinary member of the Academia Europaea. In 2014, in recognition of his "significant contributions to the chemical sciences" he was designated Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.