Curriculum

Since December 2021, Serena Berardi is an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Sciences of the University of Ferrara, where she was previously a tenure-track Assistant Professor. In 2010 she obtained her PhD in Molecular Sciences (curriculum in Chemical Sciences) at the University of Padova, under the supervision of Prof. Gianfranco Scorrano. After 2 years of post-doctoral activity in the same research group and 1 year at the ISOF-CNR (Ferrara), in 2013 she joined the group of Prof. Antoni Llobet at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia as a Marie Curie Cofund Post-Doctoral Fellow. In 2016 she obtained a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship at the University of Ferrara to work on “Advanced devices for the reduction of carbon dioxide and artificial photosynthesis” (ARCADIA project - Grant Agreement n. 705723).

Her research interests span the preparation and characterization of semiconductor materials and catalysts with the aim of developing (photo)electrodes for solar energy conversion/storage and for the reduction of carbon dioxide.

She was involved in several national and European projects dealing with the photoinduced water splitting and the formation of value-added products via (photo)electrochemical processes (among them: H2020-RIA: COmbined suN-Driven Oxidation and CO₂ Reduction for renewable energy storage (CONDOR); PRIN-2020: Combined Electrochemical and Light-Driven Processes for the Sustainable Synthesis of Added-Value Molecules (ElectroLight4Value); FIRB 2012 “Nanosolar”; COST Action CM1202 “Perspect H₂O”).

She is author/co-author of 35 research articles in “peer-reviewed” international journals (>1700 total citations), comprising of 1 review paper, 2 book chapters and 1 PCT patent. Since 2006 she delivered several oral communications at national and international conferences.