Fields of Interest and Expertise

Designing flow chemistry approaches for a sustainable and green approach to pharmacological key scaffolds, aslo on the basis of natural polyphenolic motifs.

Developing strategies for characterisation and valorisation of polyphenols from water-born organisms.

Investigating uses of (modified) polyphenols in medicinal / phytosanitary chemistry.

Investigating uses of (modified) polyphenols in nanostructures for medicinal use.

Elaborating an  in-silicoapproach for modelling natural and derivatised polyphenols.

Teaching

Lecturer for ‘General and Inorganic Chemistry’ within the Bachelor Degree Course in Geologic Sciences and Technologies.

Lecturer for “Sustainable Chemistry” within the Master’s Degree Course ’Chemistry’, (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Department of Chemical Sciences and Technologies).

Lecturer for “Drug Analyses II” within the ‘Degree Course of Pharmacy’ (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Department of Chemical Sciences and Technologies).

Lecturer on Contract for “Drug Analyses II” within the ‘Degree Course of Pharmacy’ (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Department of Chemical Sciences and Technologies).

Curriculum Vitae

04/2019 – present     Associate Professor for General and Inorganic Chemistry, University of Milan-Bicocca, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Milan, Italy.

11/2017 – 03/2019: Researcher (Assistant Professor) for General Chemistry, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Department of Chemical Sciences and Technologies, Rome, Italy.

09/2012 – 10/2017: Senior Research Associate, group of Professor Claudia Crestini,University of Rome  ‘Tor Vergata’, Department of Chemical Sciences and Technologies, Rome, Italy.

09/2010 – 08/2012: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, group of Professor George M. Whitesides,Harvard University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,Cambridge, MA, United States

06/2008 – 08/2010: Postdoctoral Research Associate, group of Professor Steven. V. Ley,University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Great Britain

03/2008 – 05/2008: Postdoctoral Research Associate, group of Professor Dieter Hoppe,Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Organisch-Chemisches Institut, Münster,Germany

09/2006 – 11/2006: Visiting Research Assistant, group of Professor Takeshi Toru, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Department of Chemistry, Nagoya, Japan

02/2004 – 02/2008: Graduate student, group of Professor Dieter Hoppe,Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Organisch-Chemisches Institut, Münster, Germany

10/1999 – 02/2008: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster,Germany

02/2008: Doctoratein organic chemistry (grade: summa cum laude).

Unit

• Florence

Publications