Elisa Michelini

Elisa Michelini is associate professor in analytical chemistry at the Department of Chemistry “Giacomo Ciamician” of the University of Bologna (Italy).

Her research activity deals with the development of optical biosensors, mainly relying on bio-chemiluminescence and colorimetric detection, for clinical diagnostics, water, environmental, and agro-food sectors. In the last ten years her activity has been also focused on smartphone biosensors, paper sensors and biosensors relying on 3D cell models. She is author of more than 100 articles on high impact journals (h-index 39) and her work has been cited more than 4700 times (Scopus). She has been trecipient of several awards including the Nanotech Applications Award (2009), Marlene DeLuca Prize (2012), Genelux Award (2014) and EPA Water Toxicity Sensor Challenge (2022). She coordinated a NATO-SPS project and has been deeply involved in projects funded by European Commission and PRIMA-Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area. She is associate Editor per Frontiers in Bioengineering and Member of the Advisory board of the Sensors & Diagnostic Journal (Royal Society of Chemistry).