Andrea Zitolo OMRI (Pescina, born 1980[1]) is an Italian French scientist (with habilitation - full professor status) and academic specialized in physical chemistry and material science.

At the same university, he obtained his PhD in Chemical Sciences with a thesis on “Structural investigation of lanthanoid coordination: a combined XAS and Molecular Dynamics study” and he started his career as researcher.

[2] On 2020 he obtained a Agence nationale de la recherche grant to start and coordinate “Spectroscope”,[3] an operando X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) study of novel non-precious metal electrocatalysts.

On 2 June 2017 the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella nominated him Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic for his contribution to the advancement of Science and in January 2018, the French Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer nominated him Knight of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques.

[1] His pioneering research[5] interest focuses on the application of x ray absorption spectroscopy in understanding the structure and properties of fuel cell catalysts.