Since April 2023 I am working as a Senior Scientist and esqLABS where I will contribute to a project on aggregated exposure that is oriented in the larger domain of the human exposome initiative.
April 2019 - March 2023: research facilitator at the Research Office - International Research section at Ca' Foscari University, where I was involved in supporting activities related to fund raising, strategic development and communication of in the initiative Research for Global Challenge.
Dec 2018 - March 2019: development of a classification tool applicable to nano-enabled products and on the definition of an ontology in support of the application of in silico methods in the frame of the H2020 project GRACIOUS, in support of Greendecision Srl and Post Doc researcher at the Department of Environmental Science Informatics and Statistics at the University Ca' Foscari of Venice. Prediction of environmental concentrations of emerging pollutants and their bioaccumulation in relevant species in the Lagoon of Venice (Venezia 2021 project funded by CORILA).
May 2014 - May 2017: Scientific Project Officer at the European Commission Joint Research Centre, Institute for Health, Consumers and Reference Materials, Chemical safety and alternative methods Unit, and EURL-ECVAM
Environmental and human health risk assessment of mixtures: Review of biomonitoring programs (through the JRC IPCheM and literature search) for identifying a theoretical case study for mixtures risk assessment; identification of a physiologically based model/approach to calculate biomonitoring equivalents
Application of read-across to engineered nanomaterials for the purpose of human health hazard assessment (endpoint of interest: genotoxicity)
Knowledge of REACH regulation and requirements, support on the application of alternative methods for REACH submissions for (eco)toxicological endpoints
Communication, project planning, drafting progress reports ad deliverables
Co-supervisor of two external research fellows working on building an inventory of models applied to manufactured nanomaterials (computational, physiologically based and for the environmental fate and transport)
Training on improving communication skills, scientific writing; sectorial training on REACH, uncertainty analysis in chemicals risk assessment, the platform Knime, Toxicology, IPCheM the Information Platform for Chemical Monitoring
March 2010 - May 2014: Post Doc Researcher at the Department of Environmental Science, Informatics and Statistics, University Ca’ Foscari of Venice
Chemicals environmental impact assessment via the application of environmental exposure models; focus on persistent organic pollutants (multimedia fate and transport models)
Climate change scenarios deducted from regional scale climate models to assess the impact of climate change on chemicals fate and transport
Engineered nanomaterials fate and transport: principles and theories; the utility of the fractal theory in the field of multimedia exposure models
Project management (national and international projects like Life+ SALT and TRUST, the Eranet Cantico)
Supervising a PhD student and several bachelor/master students
Marie Curie IRSES 3 months exchange at the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Science in Beijing (China) in September-November 2012
January 2007 - March 2010: PhD student at the University Ca' Foscari of Venice, participating parner of the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change (CMCC)
Environmental fate of persistent organic pollutants at the global and regional scale
Statistical analysis (Monte Carlo, Sensitivity analysis)
Responsible for the work carried out by several bachelor/master students
Perfectioning period at ETH Zurich for 11 months (2008-2009), supervised by by Martin Scheringer and Matthew MacLeod
October 2006 - December 2006: Junior researcher at the Consorzio Venezia Ricerche
Support the drafting of the first deliverable within the WP1 of the European project “Particle Risk”. My input consisted in the definition of the contents related to the analysis of available information on nanoparticles and on the proposal of an LCA-based exposure assessment scheme (I carried out the research in my Master Thesis)
Exposure scenarios applicable to engineered nanomaterials following the European Technical Guidance Document
Identification of a risk assessment framework applicable to nanomaterials
Lecturer at the Nanosafety Schools held in Venice in 2013 and 2019.
Invited speaker at the final conference of NanoToxClass in BfR, Berlin.