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Curriculum

Francesco DONSI' Curriculum

Work Experience

  • Dec 2020 - Present: Full Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno (Italy)
  • Mar 2015 - Nov 2020: Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno (Italy)
  • Oct 2014 - Sept 2015: Marie Curie Visiting Professor presso Unilever R&D Vlaardingen (The Netherlands)
  • March 2008 - August 2008: Visiting Scholar in the Department of Food Science, Rutgers University, NJ (US)
  • Oct 2005 – Mar 2015: Researcher in the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno (Italy)
  • August 2003 - July 2005: PostDoc in the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Naples Federico II (Italy)
  • January 2003 - July 2003: Scholarship at the Institute for Research on Combustion, CNR, (Italy)
  • November 2001 - May 2002: Pre-doctoral Research Assistant at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, University of Minnesota, MN (US)

Institutional duties

  • Mar 2022 - Present: Rector's Delegate for Internationalization, University of Salerno
  • May 2017 - Present: Coordinator of the PhD course in Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno

Education and training

  • November 1999 - March 2003: Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, University of Naples Federico II
  • September 1998 - February 1999: Socrates-Erasmus student at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Bath (UK)
  • November 1994 - November 1999: Degree in Chemical Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, five-year course of study, 110/110 cum laude

Awards and Acknowledgements

  • Special Mention “Premio Montana” for Food Research on nanoencapsulation of bioactive compounds, 2009
  • Prize "Start-cup Federico II" for the best business idea, 2004
  • Prize "Italgas - Debut in the research world," for the best doctoral thesis defense at an Italian university on the topics of Energy and Environment, 2003
  • XIII National Award "Federchimica per un futuro intelligente", 2001

Research activity

  • Unit operations in food engineering, with particular reference to food preservation and processing
  • High pressure homogenization as a wet-milling technology for the recovery of high-added-value compounds from biomass
  • Design and manufacture of colloidal delivery systems (emulsions, biopolymeric and lipid particles) for the delivery of natural bioactive and antimicrobial compounds in food, cosmetics and supplements
  • Hybrid models and data analysis for performance prediction in food engineering