PhD in Life and Environmental Sciences

Department

Department of Life and Environmental Sciences (DiSVA)

Main research activities/topics/projects

Research Labs:

• Biochemistry of Food, Nutrition and Oxidative Stress UV-induced
• Molecular Biophysics
• Marine Biology and Ecology
• Molecular Biology
• Analytical Chemistry for Environment and Food
• Ecotoxicology and Environmental Chemistry
• Plants and Algae Physiology
• Fluorescence
• Evolutionary Genetics
• Food, Industrial and Environmental Microbiology
• Oceanography and Civil Protection
• Infrared Spectroscopy
• Environmental Technologies
• Structural Biochemistry
• Reproductive and Developmental Biology
• Evolutionary Biology and Cytogenetics
• Marine Botany
• Microbial and Molecular Ecology
• Molecular Phylogenetics
• General Physiology
• Applied Genetics
• Microbiology and Biomedical Bacteriology
• Molecular Modeling and Bionanotechnology
• Organic Synthesis
• Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Paleoecology
• Zoology

A few collaborations with Brazilian research groups already exist:
- Prof. Rosangela ITRI, Department of Applied Physics, Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Prof. Leandro BARBOSA, Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS), Campinas, Brazil

Current projects:

Molecular Biophysics. 12 papers from the 2010. Collaboration not formalized with specific financing.

Publication short list:

• Alessia Pepe, Paolo Mariani, Rosangela Itri et al. , Nanoscale, 2023, 15 , 15196.
• Itri, R., Spinozzi F., et al., Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 2022, 624, pp. 579-592
• Mariani, P., Barbosa, L.R.S. et al., 2022 Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochem Engin Aspects 632,127720, 8
• Yoneda, J.S., Mariani, P., Itri, R. et al, 2021, Materials Science and Engineering C 121,111834
• Itri, R., Mariani, P. et al., 2018, Soft Matter 14(15), pp. 2938-2948
• Barbosa, L.R.S., Ortore, M.G., Spinozzi, F. et al., 2010, Biophysical Journal 98,147 Founding sources: CNPq, FAPESP, EU

Working language

Italian and English

 Duration in months (min-max)

PhD sandwich: 6-12

Post Doc: 6-12