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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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Laura Acquasaliente

Role: RTDB

SSD: BIO/10

Department: Dipartimento di scienze chirurgiche oncologiche e gastroenterologiche

keywords/additional details:
coagulation; neuro-coagulopathy; protein chemistry, biophysical methods for molecular recognition

laura.acquasaliente@unipd.it

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Biomolecular Engineering, Health and medicine

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

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Health and medicine, Nanomedicine

Chiara Bolego

Role: PA

SSD: BIO/14

Department:
Dipartimento di Scienze del Farmaco

chiara.bolego@unipd.it

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Health and medicine

Umberto Cillo

Role: PO

SSD: MED/18

Department: Dipartimento di scienze chirurgiche oncologiche e gastroenterologiche

Laboratory
U.O.C. Chirurgia Generale 2- Chirurgua Epatobiliopancreatica e dei trapianti di Fegato

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Health and medicine

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

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

Lisa Dalla Via

Role: PA

SSD: BIO/10

Department: Dipartimento di Scienze del Farmaco

keywords/additional details:
macromolecule-drug interactions, neurodegeneration, cancer

lisa.dallavia@unipd.it

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Biomolecular Engineering, Health and medicine

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

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

Elide Formentin

Role: PA

SSD: BIO/04

Department: Dipartimento Biologia

Keywords/additional details:
Root plasticity, plant genome editing, genetic engineering, rice, ROS imaging

elide.formentin@unipd.it

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Biomolecular Engineering, DNA Engineering, Environment, Food and Agriculture

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

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

Monica Dettin

Role/Level: PA

SSD: CHIM/06

Department: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale

keywords/additional details:
peptide synthesis, biomaterials, peptide analogs for quorum sensing and quenching

Laboratory:
Chemical Bioengineering Lab

Web Site

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Biomolecular Engineering, Health and medicine

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

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

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

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Health and medicine, Proteomics

Maria Cristina Lavagnolo

Role: PA

SSD: ICA/03

Department: Ingegneria Civile Edile e Ambientale

Keywords/additional details:
biodegradability, waste bio-treatments, contaminats in biosolids, End of Waste

mariacristina.lavagnolo@unipd.it

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biomaterials, Environment

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

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Environment, Health and medicine, Microfluidics and microfabrication, nanomaterials

Giovanni Marchegiani

Role: RTDB

SSD: MED/18

Department: Dipartimento di scienze chirurgiche oncologiche e gastroenterologiche

Laboratory
U.O.C. Chirurgia Generale 2- Chirurgua Epatobiliopancreatica e dei trapianti di Fegato

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Health and medicine

Francesca Marin

Role: PA

SSD: M-FIL/03

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

keywords/additional details:
Ethical assessment; Public engagement.

francesca.marin@unipd.it

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Ethics

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

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

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

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

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

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Ethics, ethics and social assessment, Open Science and Responsible Innovation, Social Sciences & Humanities

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

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