RENATA ADAMI | Curriculum

She graduated cum laude in Chemical Engineering in 2001 at the University of Salerno with a thesis on "atomization assisted by supercritical fluids: application to catalyst precursors".

In 2007 he obtained his PhD in Food Chemistry at the University of Turku (Finland) and his PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Salerno with the thesis "Micronization of Pharmaceuticals and Food Ingredients using Supercritical Fluid Techniques".

In 2001 she qualified as an engineer.

In 2013 and 2018 she obtained the national qualification as Associate Professor in sector 09/ICHI-02 - CHEMICAL INDUSTRIAL PLANTS AND PROCESSES.

She has participated as a speaker at numerous International Conferences. She has been a guest lecturer at several universities (University of Turku, Finland; University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany; University of Zlín, Czech Republic; University of Salerno, Italy; University of Aberdeen, UK).

She has been invited as a keynote speaker (22nd Symposium of Malaysian Chemical Engineers (SOMChE), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2008, First World Conference on Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery (WCN 2010), Kottayam, Kerala, India 2010); invited speaker (11th International Symposium on Supercritical Fluids (ISSF) - Supergreen 2015, Seoul, Corea del Sud; workshop "Alimentos y microencapsulaciòn: oportunidades para agregar valor a la industria en Chile" presso Fraunhofer Chile Research, Santiago, Cile, 2017; plenary speaker (5th International Symposium on Aqua Science and Water Resources (ISASWR'17), Fukuoka, Giappone, 2017; International Conference on Sustainable Development in Nanotechnology (ICSDN2023) Jamshoro, Pakistan, 2023. She has been invited as chair session at several International Conferences.

She has been a member of the organizing committee of several workshops (RISE | Staff exchange for research and innovation INFODAY, University of Salerno, Department of Pharmacy, 2020; MSCA ESRS School of Training and Innovation - "Advanced methods for characterization of graphene-based nanocomposites", University of Salerno – Project H2020-MSCA-RISE-734164-Graphene 3D, 2019), of the scientific committee of the 10th Conference on Supercritical Fluids and Their Applications (2013) and of the organizing committee of the 109th National Congress of SIF (Italian Physical Society) in 2023.

In 2009 he received the AWARD of the Compressed Fluid Technologies Division - Association of Finnish Chemical Societies for the best doctoral thesis.

In 2009-2010 he was awarded a fellowship by the Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT) of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, to study the application of laser technology to the analysis of micronization of supercritical fluids.

In 2011 he obtained a scholarship from the Italian-German University and Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) for the Vigoni project. In 2013 he obtained a scholarship from the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) in bilateral agreement with the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Since 2018 she has been awarded several Marie Curie Fellowships for mobility within the GRAPHENE 3D project (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2016 GA734164), at the Institute of Mechanics - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia (Bulgaria) and the Institute of Nuclear Problems of the Belarusian State University in Minsk.

From 2019 to 2020 he participated in the PARE (Perspectives for the Aeronautical Research in Europe) project, H2020-MG-2017-SingleStage-RTD-MOVE (GA 769220).

Since 2020 she has been part of the COST ACTION CA 18125 AERoGELS (Advanced Engineering and Research of aeroGels for Environment and Life Sciences).

Since 2023 she has been responsible for WP9 - Sustainable aviation fuels for large long-range aircraft of the EFACA (Environmentally Friendly Aviation for all Classes of Aircraft) project, funded by the European Commission through the HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01 (GA 101056866) Programme.

She has been a visiting professor in the course of Innovation of Unitary Operations at the Ingenieria en Industrias Agropecuaria, Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja (Ecuador, 2012) and at the 1st Pan-African Summer School in Nanomedicine for the PhD, Pretoria (South Africa, 2012), FLUCOMP Spring School University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain, 2019). She has been co-supervisor of 35 bachelor's theses and 29 master's theses and on the scientific committee of 4 PhD theses. In 2013 she was a member of the doctoral board for the examination of the doctoral thesis at the Departamento de Ingeniería Química y Tecnología Ambiental, University of Valladolid (Spain), in 2019 she was external referee of the doctoral thesis of the doctoral program Ingeniería Química y Ambiental, Departamento de Ingeniería Química Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (Spain).

Since 2022 she has been an evaluator for the European Community (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01, HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01).

Since March 2022 he has been web manager of the Department of Physics and is a member of the communication committee of the Department of Physics.

She is a member of the University Quality Committee (PQA) and of the Quality Assurance Group of the Doctoral Course (GAQ-PhD) for the PhD in Physics and Emerging Technologies; he is coordinator of the Orientation Committee of the degree course in Science and Nanotechnology for Sustainability, and is a member of several teaching committees.

She is a member of the PhD Board in Physics and Emerging Technologies

She has 72 publications in international peer reviewed journals (2589 citations, h-index 28, source: Scopus) and more than 60 in international conference proceedings.

Research Interests

In the last 20 years she has worked on several projects related to supercritical fluids in the pharmaceutical, inorganic and food fields and his particular expertise is in micronization (formation of particles, coprecipitates, microspheres) and extraction/fractionation using techniques based on supercritical fluids.

Currently, the research activity is mainly carried out in the field of nanotechnologies applied in the field of sustainability.

Part of the research is focused on the recovery of secondary raw materials and the production of biofuels from industrial by-products or waste, with the use of nanotechnology. The research is based on the study of the high-value compounds contained in the different types of by-products of the food industry and on the possible extraction techniques and subsequent treatments. Particular attention is paid to the study and evaluation of alternative fuels to kerosene in the aviation sector (sustainable aviation fuels).

She is also involved in the synthesis processes of nanomaterials and nanocomposites, the study of their properties and possible applications and the characterization of nanomaterials and nanostructured materials using different analytical instruments: SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope), EDX (Energy Dispersive X-ray), DSC (Differential Scanning Calorimetry), XRPD (X-Ray Powder Diffraction), FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy), Raman, UV-vis spectrophotometer, GC (Gas Chromatography), NTA (Nano Tracker Analysis).

Part of the activities concerns the use of supercritical fluids for different industrial applications, in collaboration with international research groups.