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Stefania Impellizzeri

Toronto, Ontario

Position: Associate Professor, Jet Ice Research Chair in Sustainable Materials Chemistry, Dimensions Faculty Chair for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Research (Faculty of Science)

Organization: Department of Chemistry and Biology, Toronto Metropolitan University

Researcher in metallic and semiconducting nanomaterials for bioimaging and catalysis, as well as materials, energy and water sustainability in the ice-making industry. Actively involved in equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives, inclusive mentorship, and policy development for greener practices and products in sports arenas.

Areas of Expertise:

+ Photochemistry
+ Nanomaterials

Language(s):

+ English
+ Italian


About Me

Sector: Academia (Post Secondary)

English proficiency: Read, Write, Speak

French proficiency: Read

Other Language(s): Italian

Title: Dr.

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Gender: Cisgender Female

Demographic: European / White


Recent Publications

Title Year
What is in the snow pile? Microplastics and rink ice-shaving waste2026
Contrasting ion inclusion rates in lake ice and rink ice2026
Synergistic and Dye-Sensitized Contributions in the Visible-Light Photodegradation of Dyes over a Nickel Oxide/Carbon Dot@ZIF-8 Heterogeneous Composite2026
Jet Ice Research Chair in Sustainable Materials Chemistry. TECHNICAL REPORT Y4Q22026
Jet Ice Research Chair in Sustainable Materials Chemistry. TECHNICAL REPORT Y4Q12026
Directional freezing controls ion inclusion in lake ice and rink ice2026
Metal‐Enhanced Fluorescence for the Biologist’s Cellular Imaging Toolkit: Design Principles and Recent Applications2026
Fast but durable: Is there an optimal water for hockey ice?2026
Effect of water quality on ice hardness and skate-to-ice friction in ice rinks2026
Microplastics and PMT plastic-associated chemicals as co-contaminants in ice shaving waste from an urban ice rink2026
Jet Ice Research Chair in Sustainable Materials Chemistry. TECHNICAL REPORT Y3Q32025
Cardiovascular toxicity in CML patients treated with BCR-ABL inhibitors: relevance of early detection and management of cardiovascular follow-up2025
Arena ice quality and perspectives on optimizing performance and addressing emerging challenges2025
Heat Enhancement of Ethylene Glycol/Water Mixture in the Presence of Gyroid TPMS Structure: Experimental and Numerical Comparison2025
Photoinduced luminescence activation of hydrophilic ‘caged’ carbons dots2025
Improved imaging and preservation of lysosome dynamics using silver nanoparticle-enhanced fluorescence2023
Single-colour, visible light activation and excitation of the luminescence of a ‘switch-on’ dye and enhancement by silver nanoparticles2022
Facile supramolecular strategy to construct solid fluorophore@metal–organic framework composites2022
Single-Colour, Visible Light Activation and Excitation of the Luminescence of a ‘Switch-On’ Dye and Enhancement by Silver Nanoparticles2022
Direct photochemical route to azoxybenzenes via nitroarene homocoupling2022
Experimental Investigation of Heat Transfer with Various Aqueous Mono/Hybrid Nanofluids in a Multi-Channel Heat Exchanger2021
The complex chemistry of diversity and inclusion: a 30-year synthesis2021
Photochemical Insights on Intramolecular Dye‐Sensitized Free‐Radical Processes with a Quinoline Antenna2021
Photochemical synthesis and radical generation of the nickel-tin dimer [Ni(SnBut3)(CNBut)2(CO)]22021
Fluorescence activation, patterning and enhancement with photogenerated radicals, a prefluorescent probe and silver nanostructures2021