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DIEGO CACCAVO Curriculum

Diego Caccavo graduated with honors in Chemical Engineering in 2013 at the University of Salerno with a thesis entitled "Mathematical description of hydrogels' behavior for biomedical applications", carried out in part at Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden ).

In 2017 he obtained the title of PhD in Industrial Engineering, Chemical Engineering curriculum, at the Industrial Engineering Departments (DIIN) of the University of Salerno, with a thesis entitled "Analysis and modeling of the behavior of hydrogels- based systems for biomedical and agro-food applications ".

Since 2017, as a research fellow, he has been working at the University of Salerno in the departments of Pharmacy and Industrial Engineering. Since 2022 he has been a researcher at the Department of Industrial Engineering.

The didactic activity of Eng. Diego consisted of monographic seminars and collaborations in the courses of Principles of Chemical Engineering (2014/2017), Transport Phenomena in Food Processes (2014/2021) and Food Chemical Reactors (2014/2021) at DIIN, courses for which he participated as an expert on the subject in the examination committees.

He teaches in the courses of "Process Instrumentation and Control/Instrumentation and Control of Chemical Processes", of "Food Chemical Reactors" and "Mathematical Modeling and Control for the Process Industry".

He has also tutored for the development of more than 40 degree theses in Chemical Engineering, of which more than a third are master's degrees.

His research activities concern:

  • the analysis and modeling of the behavior of hydrogel-based systems for biomedical and agri-food applications.
  • the development of innovative methods, such as the coaxial jet mixer, for the production of nanoparticles, with particular emphasis on the production and characterization of liposomes.
  • the development and control of new processes (and products), based on the application of the concepts of transport phenomena and rapid prototyping (electronics and materials).

He is a founding partner of two Spin-Offs, Eng4Life S.r.L. (https://www.eng4life.it) and EST S.r.L. (http://est.srl). He is the inventor in two Italian patent applications, the first concerning a method of measuring the alcohol content in beverages by analyzing the vapor phase above them and the second relating to a method and instrument for controlling the pH in simulating solutions. gastric environment.

Eng. Diego Caccavo is reviewer for numerous international journals of the ISI circuit. He is part of the editorial board of the prestigious international journal European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics (Elsevier, IF 2021 5.589). He has produced more than 30 publications in international journals, indexed on the Web Of Science and Scopus databases. In May 2021, according to Scopus, the h-index was 12 (33 registered works, 417 citations). He is among the "Top Scientists" 2019, 2020 and 2021 in a database developed by research of the Stanford University that collects about 2% of the best researchers in the world, recently published in the international scientific journal PlosBiology.