Curriculum

Work Experience

Since 2014: Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Department of Chemical Pharmaceutical Agricultural Sciences, University of Ferrara

Since 2020: Head of the Department of Chemical Pharmaceutical Agricultural Sciences, University of Ferrara Since 2020: Member of the Academic Senate of the University of Ferrara

Since 2019: Coordinator of the PhD School in Chemistry of the University of Ferrara

2016-2020: Member of the Board of Administration of the University of Ferrara.

2019: Chair of the 48th International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques, HPLC2019 (Milan, Italy, 16-20 June 2019)

Since 2019: Member of the permanent Scientific Committee International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques (HPLC)

Since 2016: Member of the permanent Scientific Committee of the International Symposium on Chromatography (ISC)

Since 2016: Member of the permanent Scientific Committee of RemTech Expo (http://www.remtechexpo.com/index.php/en/)

Since 2016: Coordinator of the agri-food unit of the Laboratory Terra&AcquaTech of the Technopole of the Emilia Romagna region and Member of the Board of the Cluster Agrifood of Emilia Romagna region (https://www.retealtatecnologia.it/en/clust-er/agrifood).

Since 2018: Representative of the University of Ferrara for Blue Growth Strategy (https://ec.europa.eu/maritimeaffairs/policy/blue_growth_en) and co-representative for the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA, https://www.efsa.europa.eu).

Since 2019: Member elect of the Executive Board of the Analytical Chemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI).

2016-2021: Member elect of the Executive Board of the interdivision group of Separation Science of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI).

2018-2020: President of Emilia Romagna's section of Italian Chemical Society (SCI).

Since 2015: Coordinator for the University of Ferrara of the Network TESSI, Teaching Sustainability across Slovenia and Italy: Water use (http://www.sostenibile.unife.it/index.php/dellateneo/95-tessi-teaching-sustainability-across-slovenia-and-italy).

2015: Director of graduate and undergraduate programs in Chemistry of the University of Ferrara and Director of the master’s in “science technology and management (MaSTeM)” of the University of Ferrara.

2002-2014: Assistant Professor in Analytical Chemistry, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

2000-2002: Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Tennessee & ORNL, Knoxville, TN, USA

Education and Training

1999 PhD in Chemical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

1996 Degree in Chemistry, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

1995 High school leaving qualification in classical studies

Grant and Projects

Coordinator of one Flag Innovation Experiment (FIE-24) in the EU project “Unleashing the innovation potential for the digital transformation of the European Agri-food Sector”, Project: SmartAgriHubs, http://smartagrihubs.eu/

PRIN Project 2017, Cutting Edge Analytical Chemistry Methodologies and Bio-Tools to Boost Precision Medicine in Hormone-Related Diseases;

Coordinator of FIE “ECO-DESIGN della molluschicoltura” PO FEAMP 2014/2020 FLAG Costa dell’Emilia-Romagna – “Habitat marini e lagunari”;

Network TESSI, Teaching Sustainability across Slovenia and Italy: Water use (since 2015)

Italian-Hungarian Intergovernmental S&T Cooperation Program (2011-13)

He is responsible for industrial collaborations with pharmaceutical and oil companies.

Work Activities

He is author or co-author of about 150 papers on peer reviewed journals, 12 book chapters and 1 patent. He has extensively presented his work in international and national conferences.

He is member of Editorial Board of Chromatographia (Springer) and Member of Separations (MDPI).