Speakers
Alessandro Baraldi
FULL PROFESSOR @ UNIVERSITY of TRIESTE, PHYSICS DEPARTMENT
Head of the Nanoscale Materials Laboratory Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, italy
Alessandro Baraldi is Professor of Experimental Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Trieste, where he also serves as Deputy Rector for Scientific Research and Doctorates. He is responsible for the Nanoscale Materials Laboratory at Elettra – Sincrotrone Trieste, where he has carried on his scientific research since the 90’s.
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Clara Piccirillo
RESEARCHER @ CNR INSTITUTE of NANOTECHNOLOGY c/o Campus Ecotekne, LECCE
clara.piccirillo(at)nanotec.cnr.it
Clara Piccirillo, PhD in Materials Science, has over 25 years’ research experience; she worked in research institutions in Italy, UK and Portugal.
She has knowledge of both the synthesis and characterisation of materials, particularly nanomaterials. She works with materials for different applications, including biomedicine, cosmetics, environmental remediation, and sustainable agriculture. She is also interested in using wastes to extract valuable compounds, especially from the food industry.
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Luca Marchiol
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR @ DEPARTMENT of AGRIFOOD ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMAL SCIENCES (DI4A), UNIVERSITY of UDINE
PhD in Crop Productivity (partnership UniUD- UniBO). Associate Professor in Agronomy and Field Crops (ssd AGR/02) at the University of Udine. Member of the committee of the PhD program in Environmental Life Sciences (partnership UniTS-UniUD). Teacher of the courses Ecology Ecosystems, Ecological Restoration, and Crop Production.
Hir research interests are agroecology, agriculture sustainability, phytotechnologies, nano-enabled agriculture, and nanofertilizers in field crops.
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Francesco Cubadda
SENIOR RESEARCHER, TEAM LEADER @ DEPARTMENT of FOOD SAFETY, NUTRITION and VETERINARY PUBLIC HEALTH
NATIONAL INSTITUTE of HEALTH - ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITA'
Dr. Cubadda is a senior scientist and team leader at the Italian National Institute of Health with expertise in analytical sciences, nutrition, and toxicology. He leads a group with a long track record in research on analytical determination, toxicology, and risk assessment of nanomaterials and environmental particles. Expert in food safety risk assessment, he has been a member of several working groups of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). He is a current member of the Cross-cutting Working Group on Nanotechnology. Author of 190 papers in international journals.
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Youry Pii
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR @ FACULTY OF AGRICULTURAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND FOOD SCIENCES, FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN-BOLZANO
Youry Pii, Associate Professor for SSD AGR/13 at the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano since 2020, His research activity focuses on the study of soil-plant-microorganism interactions and the understanding of the physiological and molecular mechanisms of the plant underlying the acquisition of mineral nutrients, thereby applying interdisciplinary methodologies, such as molecular biology, genomics, genetics, biochemistry, analytical chemistry, and plant physiology.
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Tiziana Tosco
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR @ DEPARTMENT of ENVIRONMENT, LAND and INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING (DIATI), POLITECNICO DI TORINO
Tiziana Tosco is Associate Professor of Sanitary Environmental Engineering at Politecnico di Torino. Her research focuses on groundwater characterization, remediation, and protection (including developing innovative nanoparticle-based in-situ remediation techniques for contaminated aquifer), contaminant transport in the subsoil, human health risk assessment for nanomaterials, quantification and mitigation of the environmental impacts of agrochemicals.
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Danilo Demarchi
FULL PROFESSOR @ DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS (DET), POLITECNICO DI TORINO
Full Professor at Politecnico di Torino (PoliTO), Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, with the tenures of “Introduction to MEMS and BioMEMS”, “Design of Microsystems” and “Bio-NanoElectronics”. Leading the Micro&Nano Electronic Systems Lab of PoliTO and coordinating the Italian Institute of Technology Microelectronics group at PoliTO. Author and co-author of 5 patents and more than 300 scientific publications in international journals and conference proceedings.
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Luca Pagano
RESEARCHER @ CONSORZIO INTERUNIVERSITARIO NAZIONALE per le SCIENZE AMBIENTALI (CINSA), UNIVERSITY OF PARMA
PhD in Biotechnology at the University of Parma. Post-doc at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station of New Haven and University of Massachusetts (UMASS), Amherst. The main research interests are risk assessment, the ecotoxicological impact of Engineered Nanomaterials (ENMs); integrated study of plant organisms and simple eukaryotes concerning organelles functionality and molecular mechanisms, from genetics to genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics.
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Guido Fellet
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR @ DEPARTMENT of AGRIFOOD ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMAL SCIENCES (DI4A), UNIVERSITY of UDINE
Guido Fellet is an Associate Professor at the Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental, and Animal Sciences of the University of Udine. He is a member of the committee of the PhD program in Environmental Life Sciences (partnership UniTS-UniUD). He teaches Agronomy to B.S. students in Viticulture and Oenology and Phytotechnologies to M.S. students in Environmental Analysis and Management. His current research interests and activities focus on applying nanotechnologies in agriculture and sustainable agriculture.
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Giorgio Balestra
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN PLANT PATHOLOGY @ DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FOREST SCIENCES (DAFNE), UNIVERSITY of TUSCIA, VITERBO
His research topics mainly concern the sustainable protection of crops through the valorization of waste from agri-food chains by nanotechnological approaches. Moreover, he is involved in ecological, epidemiological and genetic studies of bacterial and fungal plant pathogens. Among his academic courses promotes the application of green nanotechnologies. Founder of the academic spin-off Phy.Dia. srl (www.phydia.eu). He has over 100 international scientific publications and several patents. He was the Convener of the 1st Summer school ‘Nanotechnology in Agriculture held at Tuscia University in 2022.
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Sara Francesconi
JUNIOR RESEARCHER (RTDa) @ DEPARTMENT of AGRICULTURE and FOREST SCIENCES (DAFNE), UNIVERSITY of TUSCIA, VITERBO
Sara Francesconi is Junior Researcher (RTDa) in Plant Pathology at the Department of Agriculture and Forest Sciences (DAFNE). She is involved in several research activities concerning innovative and eco-sustainable strategies to manage fungal and bacterial plant diseases. She employs nanotechnology for the sustainable delivery of compounds as much as using molecular tools to study the plant-pathogen interaction.
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Massimo Sgarzi
RESEARCHER (RTDb) @ DEPARTMENT of MOLECULAR SCIENCES and NANOSYSTEMS, CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY of VENICE
Massimo Sgarzi obtained his PhD in Chemistry at University of Bologna in 2014, dealing with luminescent chemosensors. In 2015, he moved to HZDR, Germany, focusing on upconverting nanoparticles. In 2019, as head of the Environmental Nanotechnology group at TU Dresden, Germany, he worked with nanomaterials for wastewater treatment. Since 2021, he has been a tenure-track assistant professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, dealing with nanocomposites for nanomedicine and water remediation.
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Dora Scarpin
PhD Student @ DEPARTMENT OF AGRIFOOD ENVIRONMENTAL and ANIMAL SCIENCES (DI4A), UNIVERSITY OF UDINE
Dora Scarpin obtained the bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Sciences and the master's degree in Agricultural Sciences and Technologies, both with full marks and honours, at the University of Udine. Since 2020 she has been attending the PhD school in Agricultural Sciences and Biotechnology at the same University. Her field of study concerns smart technologies for environmental and agricultural applications: nanotechnologies, remote sensing, and plant phenotyping.