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Aurélie Bessière (CNRS, France)
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Maria Maddalena Calabretta (University of Bologna, Italy)
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Gianni Ciofani (IIT, Italy)
Gianni Ciofani, Ph.D., is Senior Researcher Tenured at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia -Italian Institute of Technology, IIT- (Pontedera, Italy; since 2019), where he is Principal Investigator of the Smart Bio-Interfaces Research Line (since 2017) and Coordinator of the Center for Materials Interfaces (since 2021). He has been Associate Professor at the Polytechnic University of Torino (Torino, Italy; 2015-2019) and Visiting Professor at Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan; 2021). His main research interests concern smart nanomaterials for nanomedicine, complex in vitro models, and nanomedicine in altered gravity conditions. He is coordinator or unit leader of several projects: in particular, he was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant and two ERC Proof-of-Concept Grant in 2016, 2018, and 2022, respectively. Thanks to grants from the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the European Space Agency (ESA), he had the opportunity to carry out experiments onboard the International Space Station (ISS) in 2017, 2019, and 2022. In 2018, his real-scale model of the blood-brain barrier was highlighted in the Annual Report on the ERC Activities and Achievements. Gianni Ciofani is author of about 175 papers on international journals, 3 edited books, and 16 book chapters, and delivered about 65 invited talks/lectures in international contexts.
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Mariana Ionita (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania)
Mariana Ionita was educated at top level universities (Politecnico di Milano, Technical University of Denmark, Universita degli Studi di Milano) and gained her PhD in Chemistry and in Bioengineering in 2008 from Politecnico di Milano. Thereafter she was appointed Professor and project co-coordinator at Faculty of Medical Engineering, Politehnica Bucharest. Mariana has an outstanding contribution related to bone tissues regeneration solution and additive manufacturing / 3 D printing topic in which she emerged as a game changer achieving structures with predictable bone tissue regenerative performance or fine-tuned structures with anisotropic mechanical properties. She has co-authored four research monographs, more than 95 peer reviewed scientific papers, and participated in over 50 different scientific events as keynote and invited lecturer.
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Maurizio Prato (CIC biomaGUNE, Spain)
Prof. Maurizio Prato has made numerous significant scientific contributions to the field of Organic Chemistry applied to Nanosciences by enabling innovative, controlled and reproducible ways to make intractable materials, such as carbon nanotubes and graphene, useful materials for sensing, catalysis, drug delivery, as well as in neurosciences and energy-relevant technologies.
The breadth of Maurizio Prato's activity is unique, with major contributions in nanoscience, such as:
The chemical functionalization of C60 fullerene and their use in photovoltaic applications: the Prato Reaction.
Chemical functionalization and solubilisation of CNTs and their subsequent application in the fields of drug delivery, including gene delivery and immunology.
Biocompatibilization of CNTs by designed chemical functionalization.
Development of carbon nanostructures as scaffolds for neuronal growth.
Design of innovative carbon nanodots for applications in bio-imaging, sensing and catalysis.
Has published more than 700 papers on international peer reviewed Journals, with a total of around 57,000 citations and an h-index of 111. Has been invited to more than 250 conferences and workshops in the last 10-15 years as a plenary or keynote speaker, and has given more than 50 invited talks in Universities or research centers all around the world.
Director of more than 50 PhD students, 50 master theses, more than 40 postdocs and more than 25 visiting researchers.
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