Associate Professor at the University of Bologna, Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology (FaBiT).
A passionate scholar of the plant kingdom, her research focuses on medicinal and aromatic plants using an integrated metabolomic approach, primarily based on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and chemometric tools. A systemic perspective on plants and their metabolites is the guiding thread of her work, which ranges from the study of traditional medicines and ethnobotany as sources of bioactive compounds, to quality control of natural products, and the exploration of plant–environment interactions.
She is a member of the Italian Society of Phytochemistry (SIF) and author of numerous scientific publications in the field of Plant Science. She has participated in several national and international research projects, including:
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the FARB project (2013), “Medicinal plants from traditional medicine as a source of antimicrobial and antiviral compounds”;
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the project funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2019–2022), in collaboration with the University of Belgrade, “Metabolomics approach for the detection of herbs and spices frauds”, as unit coordinator;
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the PRIN project (2022), “Circular economy: from local agri-food waste to new nutraceuticals against inflammatory bowel diseases”, also as unit coordinator.
She collaborates with the scientific journal Plant Biosystems as a Subject Editor.
For further details, please see the full CV attached.
