Postdoctoral Researcher in Analytical Chemistry, Dublin City University
My first encounter with research was during my final project in my MSc in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology in my home country, Italy. An Erasmus+ grant allowed me to carry out most of my project abroad, at the Wroclaw Medical University (Poland). Curiosity (and another Erasmus!) led me to the University of Split (Croatia) where I gained more hands-on research experience with different analytical techniques to study plant and food samples. After my degree, I worked as a pharmacist for some time, but I was missing the thrills and challenges of research. When I was awarded the Irish Research Council Postgraduate Research Scholarship in 2019, I was delighted to join Dublin City University to start my PhD with Prof. Blánaid White and Dr. Aoife Morrin. My project aimed at developing a multidisciplinary method to characterise honey and its potential biomedical applications using volatile markers. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Aoife Morrin’s laboratory with Insight (SFI) at DCU, working on bacterial signature Volatile Organic Compounds for wound infection diagnostics.