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SynBio@UNIPD is powered by a dynamic and multidisciplinary team of researchers and professionals from across the University of Padova.

Our team includes leading experts in biology, bioinformatics, chemistry, engineering, medicine, and philosophy — working together to advance the frontiers of Synthetic Biology.

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Vincenzo Amendola

Vincenzo Amendola

Role/Level: PA

SSD: CHIM/02

Department: Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche

keywords/additional details:
nanotechnology, nanoparticles, antimicrobial nanoparticles, magnetic nanoparticles, nanomedicine, nanosensors, optical sensors, radiosensitizers, contrast agents

Laboratory:
Laser Assisted Synthesis and Plasmonics Lab

Web Site

vincenzo.amendola@unipd.it

Tags:

  • Health and medicine, Nanomedicine
Stefano Crabu

Stefano Crabu

Role: PA

SSD: SPS/07

Department:  
Dipartimento di Filosofia, sociologia, pedagogia e psicologia applicata

keywords/additional details:
Public engagement; Responsible research and innovation; Open Science; Public communication of science

Laboratory
Pa.S.T.I.S.

Web Site

Personal web site

stefano.crabu@unipd.it

Tags:

  • co-creation, media analysis, Open Science and Responsible Innovation, Public communication & citizens engagement, public opinion surveys
Simone Del Favero

Simone Del Favero

Role/Level: PA

SSD: ING-INF/06

Department: Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione

keywords/additional details:
automatic control, bioreactors, mathematical modeling, dyanmical systems

Tags:

  • Data Science/Software dev, Energy, Health and medicine, Mathematical modeling
Pierantonio Facco

Pierantonio Facco

Role/Level: PA

SSD: ING-IND/26

Department: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale

keywords/additional details:
machine learning, digital twin, design of experiments, process/product development, scale-up

Laboratory:
CAPE-Lab

Web Site

Personal Web Site

pierantonio.facco@unipd.it

Tags:

  • Data Science/Software dev, Food and Agriculture, Health and medicine, Industrial Biotech, Mathematical modeling
Lorenzo Favaro

Lorenzo Favaro

Role/Level: PA

SSD: AGR/16

Department: Dipartimento di Agronomia, Animali, Alimenti, Risorse naturali e Ambiente

keywords/additional details:
microbial biotechnologies, biofuels, biopolymers, recombinant enzymes production, microbial ecology, yeast engineering, bacteria engineering

Laboratory:Waste to Bioproducts Lab

Web

Email: lorenzo.favaro@unipd.it

Tags:

  • Biomolecular Engineering, DNA Engineering, Energy, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Host Engineering, Industrial Biotech
Cinzia Franchin

Cinzia Franchin

Role: RTDB

SSD: BIO/10

Department: Dipartimento scienze del farmaco

keywords/additional details:
IBD, investigation on gut permeabilization, mass spectrometry

cinzia.franchin@unipd.it

Tags:

  • Health and medicine, Proteomics
Lucio Litti

Lucio Litti

Role: RTDB

SSD: CHIM/02

Department: Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche

Keywords/additional details:
sensors, spectroscopy, surface chemistry, nanoparticles

Laboratory
Nanostrutures & Optics Laboratory

Web Site

lucio.litti@unipd.it

Tags:

  • Environment, Health and medicine, Microfluidics and microfabrication, nanomaterials
Federico Neresini

Federico Neresini

Role: PO

SSD: SPS/07

Department:  
Dipartimento di Filosofia, sociologia, pedagogia e psicologia applicata

keywords/additional details:
Public engagement; Responsible research and innovation; Open Science; Public communication of science

federico.neresini@unipd.it

Tags:

  • co-creation, media analysis, Open Science and Responsible Innovation, Public communication & citizens engagement, public opinion surveys
Lucia Nicola

Lucia Nicola

Role: PO

SSD: ING-IND/21

Department: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale

Keywords/additional details:
computational modeling, atomistic modeling, adhesion

Laboratory
Computational Materials Science Group

Web Site

lucia.nicola@unipd.it

Tags:

  • Data Science/Software dev, Energy, Mathematical modeling
Morten Gram Pedersen

Morten Gram Pedersen

Role/Level: PA

SSD: ING-INF/06

Department: Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione

keywords/additional details:
mathematical modeling of events on subcellular-to-organ-levels, electrical activity, calcium dynamics, image analysis, dynamical systems, bifurcations, stochastic modeling

Site Web

Email: mortengram.pedersen@unipd.it

Tags:

  • Data Science/Software dev, Food and Agriculture, Health and medicine, Mathematical modeling
Guido Gorgoni

Guido Gorgoni

Role: RU

SSD: IUS/20

Department:  
Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Giuridiche e studi Internazionali 

keywords/additional details:
Responsible research and innovation; Governance and regulation of technologies; Data protection.

guido.gorgoni@unipd.it

Tags:

  • Ethics, ethics and social assessment, Open Science and Responsible Innovation, Social Sciences & Humanities
Patrizia Polerino De Laureto

Patrizia Polerino De Laureto

Role: PA

 

Department: Dipartimento scienze del farmaco

keywords/additional details:
Protein-protein, protein-drug, protein lipid interaction, mass spectrometry, spectroscopy, biophysical characteriazation of proteins

patrizia.polverinodelaureto@unipd.it

Tags:

  • Environment, Health and medicine, Structural biology
Angelo Simone

Angelo Simone

Role: PO

SSD: ICAR/08

Department: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale

Keywords/additional details:
computational modeling, finite element method, multiscale and multiphysics, fiber networks, electrical conductivity, diffusion

Laboratory
Computational Materials Science Group

Web Site

angelo.simone@unipd.it

Tags:

  • Data Science/Software dev, Energy, Mathematical modeling
Fabio Mammano

Fabio Mammano

Role: PO

SSD: FIS/06

Department: Dipartimento di Fisica Galileo Galilei

fabio.mammano@unipd.it

Tags:

  • Biomolecular Engineering, Health and medicine, Mathematical modeling
Diana Giannuzzi

Diana Giannuzzi

Role: RTDA

SSD: AGR/18

Department: Dipartimento di Agronomia, Animali, Alimenti, Risorse naturali e Ambiente

Keywords/additional details:
Livestock, genomics, gene expression, proteomics, microbiome, animal physiology, animal welfare, sensors

Web Site

diana.giannuzzi@unipd.it

Tags:

  • Biomolecular Engineering, Health and medicine, Host Engineering
Enrico Negrisolo

Enrico Negrisolo

Role: PA

SSD: BIO/05

Department: Dipartimento di Biomedicina Comparata e Alimentazione

Tags:

  • biomaterials, nanomaterials
Emanuele Locatelli

Emanuele Locatelli

Role/Level: PA

SSD: FIS/07

Department: Dipartimento di Fisica Galileo Galilei

keywords/additional details:
Molecular dynamics, DNA coarse-grained models, colloidal electrostatics, LLPS, active/living filaments, topology, chromatin organisation

Email: emanuele.locatelli@unipd.it

Tags:

  • Data Science/Software dev, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Mathematical modeling
Sara Pegolo

Sara Pegolo

Role/Level: PA

SSD: AGR/17

Department: Dipartimento di Agronomia, Animali, Alimenti, Risorse naturali e Ambiente

keywords/additional details:
livestock, genomics, gene expression, proteomics, microbiome, animal physiology, animal welfare, sensors

Website

Email: sara.pegolo@unipd.it

Tags:

  • Biomolecular Engineering, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Host Engineering
Davide Ferraro

Davide Ferraro

Role/Level: RTDB

SSD: FIS/03

Department: Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Galileo Galilei"

keywords/additional details:
Microfluidics, microfabrication, optical sensors, chemical/physical surfaces, extracellular vesicles

SiteWeb

SiteWeb

Email: davide.ferraro@unipd.it

Tags:

  • Health and medicine, Industrial Biotech, Microfluidics and microfabrication
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