Personale docente

Degree in Chemistry in 1987 at the University of Parma cum laude. Degree of Specialist in Food Chemistry and Technology at University of Parma in 1989 cum laude. PhD in Chemistry in 1991. Researcher in Analytical Chemistry from 1992 to 1998. Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Parma University from 1998 to 2001. Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Parma University since 2001. Head of the Chemistry Department of Parma University since July 2012 up to December 2016. Member of the Academic Senate since July 2012 up to December 2016. Member of the Board of Governors at the University of Parma from 2017 to 2020. Director of the University Master Course "Laboratory Quality Systems" from 2001-2002 to 2010-2011 academic years. Member of the College of PhD in Food Science and Technology, Parma University, (2004 - 2009). Member in the College of PhD in Chemical Science, Parma University since January 2011. Member of the Committee for scientific research within Italian Chemical Society from 2012 to 2013. Member of the Committee for the evaluation of scientific projects for the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (2004). Member of the Committee for the Evaluation of Research (CIVR), Ministry of University and Research within the National peer-review research assessment exercise (2001-2003). Chair elected of the Executive Board of the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the Italian Chemical Society (2007 – 2009). Responsible of the Working Group on accreditation of laboratories, in collaboration with SINAL, the Italian Accreditation Body up to 2009, and with the Italian National Institute of Health (appointed by the President of Italian Chemical Society). Member of the Working Group “Italian Chemical Society – Italian National University Council” on revision of the academic disciplines Area 03-Chemistry (2007-2009). Director of the National School of "Analytical and Bioanalytical Methodologies based on Mass Spectrometry" of the Italian Chemical Society, which is hold in Parma starting from 2005. Professor training courses organized by Interuniversity Consortium of Analytical Methodologies and Quality Control – CIMACQ (as active member of CIMACQ) and by University of Parma about the ISO/IEC 17025 rule and method validation. Member representing the Parma University of the Steering Committee and Monitoring Scientific and Industrial Research (CIMSI) within ASTER and High Technology Network of Emilia-Romagna (2011-2013). Member representing the Parma University of the Consulting Committee for Industrial Research and Development (CCIS) within ASTER and the High Technology Network of Emilia-Romagna (2014-2018). Member representing University of Parma of METROFOOD-IT since 2017. Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Chromatography A (Elsevier) (2002-2013) and of Current Analytical Chemistry (Bentham Science Publisher) since June 2004; member of the International Advisory Board of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (Springer) since January 2008. Guest Editor of a special issue of the Journal of Chromatography A (vol. 1054, 2004) devoted to "Food Science". Guest Editor of a special issue of the journal Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (vol. 399, 2011) devoted to "Advances in analytical mass spectrometry". Co-Guest Editor of the Topical Collection “Chemical Sensing Systems” of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (vol. 408, 2016). Referee for the critical evaluation of the book proposal “LC-MS: An Introduction”, Author: Bob Ardrey, John Wiley & Sons LTD (2003). Referee for the critical evaluation of the book proposal “Food Contaminants and Residue Analysis”, Author: Yolanda Picó, Elsevier (2006). Referee for the critical evaluation of the book “Gas chromatography”, Colin Poole (Ed.), Elsevier, ISBN: 978-0-12-385540-4, 2012 (review of the book published in Anal Bioanal Chem (2013) 405:5855–5856). Referee for the critical evaluation of the book “Analytical Chemistry for Cultural Heritage”, Rocco Mazzeo (Ed.), Springer, Switzerland, 2017 (review of the book published in Anal Bioanal Chem (2017) 409: 5191–5193, DOI: 10.1007/s00216-017-0492-6 Invited Author of review articles and chapters of books and encyclopedias, devoted to the application of hyphenated MS-based techniques to food and environmental analysis. Author of the chapter "Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Flavors and Fragrances" published in the book “Current Practice of Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry”, Ed. W.M.A. Niessen, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 2001. Author of the chapter "The Role of GC-MS and LC-MS in Monitoring and Regulatory Analysis of Contaminants in Food" in the “Encyclopedia of Mass Spectrometry”, vol. 8: Hyphenated Methods, Eds. Michael Gross and Richard Caprioli, Elsevier, 2006. Author of the chapter "Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry in Environmental Analysis" in the Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry, Ed.-in-chief R.A. Meyers, J. Wiley & Sons, 2015, update based on the original article by M. Careri, Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry, © 2000, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. She is inventor of 2 patents and author of 200 scientific papers on international peer-reviewed journals, and of more than 250 communications at national and international Symposia. Invited author of 1 edited book chapter, 3 chapters of encyclopedias, 2 editorials, 2 articles related to “Books in Review” (published in Anal Bioanal Chem). Invited speaker at national and international symposia, the most recent at 2nd IMEKOFOODS International Conference International Conference “Metrology Promoting Objective and Measurable Food Quality and Safety”, organized by IMEKO, International Measurements Confederation (October 2016) and at “Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale XL Edition”, organized by National Research Council of Italy (June 2017). For the last 10 years her research activities have centered on the development of novel materials for solvent-free extraction techniques for food safety and environmental monitoring, the development and validation of methods based on mass spectrometry techniques, the application of multivariate statistical analysis to food quality and safety and the application of experimental design techniques for analytical procedure optimization. Recently, her scientific interests have been devoted to the application of ESI-MS and MALDI-TOF-MS to structural and functional proteomics, to the development of novel materials for desorption electrospray ionization and matrix assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry with special focus on the characterization of the surfaces and to the application of SEM techniques to food safety. Her research group has also developed innovative immunosensing devices for the determination of biomarkers in cancer screening programmes and for celiac disease as well as of compunds of environmental and food interest Scientific coordinator of research projects in cooperation with industries and public organizations. Co-ordinator of research units in scientific projects financed by the Italian University and Research Ministry (MIUR) and of ISPESL (Occupational Safety Institute). PI of the european project METROFOOD-PP (H2020-INFRADEV-2018-2020) on behalf of University of Parma (1 December 2019-1 June 2022). In 2018 she received the award of the "Arnaldo Liberti" medal from the Analytical Chemistry Division together with the Environmental and Cultural Heritage Chemistry Division and the Interdivisional Group of Science of Separations of the Italian Chemical Society.