​Francesco Barzagli is a permanent researcher at ICCOM-CNR in Florence, specializing in CO2 capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies. His research focuses on developing aqueous and organic sorbents for selective CO2 capture from various gas mixtures, creating sustainable processes for converting CO2 into useful chemicals, studying direct CO2 capture from air (DAC), and developing solid acid catalysts to reduce energy consumption in sorbent regeneration processes.​