Breve Curriculum

·    Born in 1965.

·    Degree in Chemistry in 1989.

· PhD in Analytical Chemistry in 1993 at the University of Bari “Biosensors based on Enzymes Immobilized in Electrosynthesized Polymeric Films: Development and Characterization”.

·     Visiting scientist at the University of Bath (U.K.) in 1993.

·     Researcher of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Basilicata (Potenza) 1993-1998.

·     Associate professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Foggia (Faculty of Agricultural) 1998-2006.

·  Full professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Foggia (Department of the Sciences of Agricultural, Food and Environment) since July 2006.

Scientific Activities

- Member of the Editorial Board of “Applied Sciences”

- Member of the editorial board of Science Advances Today;

- Member of the editorial board of SM Analytical and Bioanalytical Techniques;

- Member of the Italian Chemical Society (Secretary and member of CdA of the Apulia Region Section 1999-2004);

- Member of UNI Ente Italiano di Normazione – Gruppo di lavoro “Analisi chimica delle carni” UNI/CT 003/SC 10/GL 03

- Invited research project reviewer for the “National Research Council” and “National Development and Innovation Council” of Romania;

- Invited research project reviewer for the University of Verona;

- Invited research project reviewer for the University of Sassari;

- Reviewer ANVUR;

- Reviewer for the following main journals: Analytical Chemistry, Analitica Chimica Acta, Journal of Chromatography A, Biosensors & Bioelectronics, Talanta, Food Chemistry, Food Additive and Contaminats A, Sensor Letters, Anal Letters, Sensors & Actuators B, BIEEE Sensors Journal, Bioanalysis, Sensors, Chromatography, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Toxins, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Scientific Expertise

His scientific expertise comprises spectroscopic techniques, as Spectrofluorimetry e Mass Spectroscopy, electroanalytical techniques, sampling and solid phase microextraction, and chromatographic techniques, as GC and HPLC. His research fields of interest are: spectroscopic and electrochemical characterisation of innovative materials; development of biosensors and their application in the “in-vitro” and “in-vivo” monitoring of food and biological fluids; fabrication of chemically modified electrodes employed as detectors in liquid chromatography for the detection of food interest compounds; analysis of volatile components by GC-MS coupled with purge and trap and SPME samplers; development of new separation analytical methodologies in HPLC with electrochemical detection, for the determination of phytohormones, pesticides and antinutritional factors; development of new sample cleanup methods for analyses by GC and HPLC of xenobiotics in foodstuffs; Proteomics by nano-LC/ESI/IT/MS/MSn and MALDI/TOF.

Current research interests:

- Development of innovative analytical methods for quality control and traceability of foodstuffs;

- Development of innovative analytical methods for the monitoring of xenobiotics;

- Development, optimization and application of amperometric biosensors;

- Structural and functional proteomics by HPLC-MS hyphenated techniques. 

Publications

He is author and co-author of 98 peer-reviewed articles, published on international and national journals, among them there are the most accredited in the field of Analytical Chemistry (Analytical Chemistry, Biosensors & Bioelectronics, Journal Chromatography A and Analytica Chimica Acta), 6 book chapters with ISBN, 23 proceedings and 154 abstracts, published on books of national and international Conferences.

Bibliometric Indicators

SCOPUS – h-index: 29; total citations: 2533; total papers: 93.

WOS – h-index: 29; total citations: 2382; total papers: 88.