Roberto Fiammengo

Curriculum

•   Curriculum Vitae   (pdf, en, 755 KB, 30/09/20)

RESEARCH

My research activities focus on the understanding of the interactions between engineered nanoparticles and biological systems and in the exploitation of this knowledge in the area of nanomedicine, bioimaging, and clinical diagnostics. To achieve these goals, we use a broad variety of synthetic approaches and of analytical techniques.
Our work is highly multidisciplinary:

• we design and synthesize molecules to be employed as surface modifiers/coatings for metallic nanoparticles
• we develop bioconjugation techniques to functionalize nanoparticles with peptides, glycopeptides, proteins, and oligonucleotids, depending on the envisioned application
• we carry out a careful and thorough physicochemical characterization of the synthesized nanomaterials
• we investigate the interaction of our nanoparticles with biological systems in vitro and in vivo with the support of a number of national and international collaborators.

NEWS

We are part of the project “DIRNANO: Directing the immune response through designed nanomaterials” (MSCA-ITN-ETN - European Training Networks funding scheme) officially starting on October 1^st, 2020!

More information can be found here: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/956544

Join us! One PhD position financed by this project is available in our group. Applications can be submitted from October 1^st until November 15^th. Further information about the application can be found here https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/561102 and here https://www.univr.it/en/phds
Important: The applicant must not have resided or carried out his/her main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Italy for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately before the call deadline, unless as part of a procedure for obtaining refugee status under the Geneva Convention. Compulsory national service and/or short stays such as holidays are not taken into account.

BIO

Roberto Fiammengo studied Chemistry at the University of Padua in Italy and received a Ph.D. from the University of Twente in the Netherlands. In 2003, he moved to Germany where he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology of the University of Heidelberg and later as a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart. In 2012 he moved back to Italy at the Center for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies of the Italian Institute of Technology in Lecce where he was a researcher – team leader until August 2020. From the 1^st of September 2020 he is an associate professor of organic chemistry at the University of Verona.

 

Projects

Title	Starting date
DIRNANO - Directing the immune response through designed nanomaterials	10/1/20

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Roberto Fiammengo

Office	Collegial Body
member	Collegio Didattico di Biotecnologie - Department Biotechnology
associate prof.	Scientific and Technological Department Council - Department Biotechnology