Chemist

Professional Technical Collaborator - Technical sector

• March 2008: BSc in Chemistry of Materials, University of Bologna, Alma Mater Studiorum – Bologna, Italy. Final mark: 109/110.
• March 2011: MSc in Fotochemistry and Chemistry of Materials, University of Bologna, Alma Mater Studiorum – Bologna, Italy. Final mark: 108/110.

Since December 2022: Professional Technical Collaborator – Technical Sector at the Biomedical Science and Technologies and Nanobiotechnology Lab
Since December 2019 to December 2022: Researcher at the Nanobiotechnology laboratory (NaBi) of the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute (Bologna Italy).
From September 2018 to December 2019: Professional Technical-Chemical Collaborator at the Nanobiotechnology laboratory (NaBi) of the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute (Bologna Italy)
From April 2012 to September 2018: contract researcher at the Nanobiotechnology laboratory (NaBi) of the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute (Bologna Italy).
From February to April 2012: trainee at the Nanobiotechnology laboratory (NaBi) of the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute (Bologna Italy).

Italian: mother tongue.
English: basic.

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows, good knowledge of the operating system and authoring tools Office;
Languages of Technical Computing: basic knowledge of Matlab;

Further Skills:

• Excellent knowledge of thin film deposition management using Pulsed Plasma Deposition (PPD) technique.
• Excellent knowledge of systems for hardness characterization (Micro/Nano-Indentation) and adhesion testing (Scratch Test).
• Fair knowledge of FTIR Spectroscopy analysis.

Author of some papers on international journals with impact factor.

Participation in research projects in the last 5 years:
2024 – 2026: HF2.0: Metodi innovativi per la modifica delle proprietà idrofobiche di Hollow Fibers in polipropilene: dai nano-additivi ai nano-coatings – (IOR Coordinator)
2018 - 2022: INAIL Grants "MeTAcOs Project - Treatment of amputations by osteointegration".
2016 - 2018: POR-FESR 2014-2020 "NanoCoatings - New nanostructured antibacterial films for biomedical applications".
2012 - 2016: GR MINSAL "Nanostructured Coatings Enhancing Material Performances in Joint Arthroplasty".

Fabrication and characterization of nanostructured thin films for biomedical applications; investigation of the physicochemical properties of bone tissue in the context of tissue regeneration and disease research.