Research Associate.
Giulia graduated in Chemistry in 2012 and she received her PhD (cum laudae) in Biotechnology (University of Perugia, 2017), discussing the thesis “Silica nanomaterials as multifunctional biodevices”, regarding the development of silica-based nanocomposites to be used as photodynamic therapy systems. Later, she received postdoc fellowships to continue her research work on the preparation of luminescent hybrid nanomaterials and smart-responsive nanostructured materials. In 2021, she joined BNT group to develop plasmonic nanocomposites as efficient contrast agents to detect drug-tolerant persister cancer cells (which is part of the EU-founded REAP project). She works in the synthesis & functionalization of bioimaging nanoprobes and their application in living model systems. Her expertise includes synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials, photocatalysis, light-mediated energy transfer, up- and down-conversion, photodynamic and photothermal processes, time-resolved spectroscopy, and nanophotonics.
