Dr Bagnato is Lecturer in Engineering at Teesside University, he studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Calabria (IT). His research activity started at the National Italian Research Council – Institute on Membrane Technology (CNR- ITM) focused on pure hydrogen production from a renewable feedstock.

He moved to Heriot-Watt University (UK) to obtain his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering with the topic “Catalytic conversion of biomass to fuels and commodity chemicals”. In addition, he has participated in the Erasmus+ program at the University of Groningen (NL) for the synthesis and characterization of new catalysts for the production of fuels and chemicals from bio-oil.

He gained experience as a research associate at Heriot-Watt University about the techno-economical assessment of sea-food biorefinery, for biopolymer production on a large scale.

He worked as a research fellow at Queen’s University Belfast (UK), responsible of 2 multi-topic projects in collaboration with Petronas. During the period at Queen's University Belfast, he also was awarded by School of Chemistry and Chemical engineering with a teaching fellow, covering some ChemEng modules across the school. 

Dr Bagnato's research interests include simulation, mathematical modeling, hydrogen production, membrane technology, plasma reactor, heterogeneous catalyst, gas separation, Carbon Capture & Utilisation, process intensification. 

Dr Bagnato is Enterprise & Business Engagement (EBE) champion for Chemical Engineering at Teesside University