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Sara Falsini ha conseguito la Laurea Specialistica in Biologia Cellulare e Molecolare nel 2010 e il Dottorato di Ricerca in “Scienze Biomediche” nel 2014 presso l'Università degli Studi di Firenze. Tra il 2015 e il 2019 ha continuato la sua attività di ricerca come assegnista di ricerca presso il Dipartimento di Chimica (2015, 2020 e 2021) dell'Università di Firenze e INSTM (2016-2019), e successivamente al Dipartimento di Biologia (2020, 2022).
Da settembre 2023 è ricercatrice a tempo determinato di tipo A presso lo stesso Dipartimento ed è docente del corso di “Botanica con Laboratorio” (SSD BIO/01) per il la Laurea Triennale in Scienze Biologiche e “Botanica Farmaceutica” (SSD BIO/01) per il Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Biologia Molecolare e Applicata.
I suoi interessi scientifici si concentrano principalmente sullo studio di aspetti morfologici delle piante sottoposte a diversi stress: abiotici, come micro-nanoplastiche, salinità e altri contaminanti e biotici come patogeni (funghi e insetti). La sua attività di ricerca riguarda anche l'impiego di metaboliti secondari estratti da piante per applicazioni nelle biotecnologie. Collabora stabilmente con il Laboratorio di Fisiologia Vegetale, il Dipartimento di Chimica “Ugo Schiff” e il Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agrarie, Alimentari, Ambientali e Forestali. Dal 2016 si è avvicinata al campo della sostenibilità e ha preso parte ad un progetto H2020 sulle procedure ecocompatibili (MEDEAS) e ad un progetto finanziato dalla Regione Toscana POR Creo Fesr (ECOMAPS). Dal 2019 collabora con il Green Office dell'Università di Firenze in un progetto riguardante la gestione e l'innovazione nella sostenibilità ambientale dell'Università. E’ inoltre referente per l’Università di Firenze all’interno del Gruppo di Lavoro “Risorse e Rifiuti” della Rete delle Università per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile.
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Sara Falsini obtained a Master's Degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology in 2010 and a PhD in "Biomedical Sciences" in 2014 at the University of Florence. Between 2015 and 2019 she continued her research activity as a research fellow at the Department of Chemistry (2015, 2020 and 2021) of the University of Florence and INSTM (2016-2019), and subsequently at the Department of Biology (2020, 2022).
Since September 2023 she has been a type A fixed-term researcher at the same Department and is a lecturer of the "Botany with Laboratory" course (SSD BIO/01) for the Bachelor's Degree in Biological Sciences and "Pharmaceutical Botany" (SSD BIO/01) for the Master's Degree Course in Molecular and Applied Biology.
Her scientific interests mainly focus on the study of morphological aspects of plants subjected to various stresses: abiotic such as micro-nanoplastics, salinity, and other contaminants and biotic like pathogens (fungi and insects). Her research activity also concerns the use of secondary metabolites extracted from plants for applications in biotechnology. She regularly collaborates with the Plant Physiology Laboratory, the Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff” and the Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Forestry Sciences and Technologies Since 2016 she has approached the field of sustainability and took part in an H2020 project on eco-compatible procedures (MEDEAS) and in a project financed by the Tuscany Region POR Creo Fesr (ECOMAPS). Since 2019 she has been collaborating with the Green Office of the University of Florence on a project concerning management and innovation in the environmental sustainability of the University. She is also the contact person for the University of Florence within the “Resources and Waste” Working Group of the Network of Universities for Sustainable Development.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
ORCID ID 0000-0003-2953-4025
Scopus ID 55909109700
PRESENT POSITION
Fix Term Researcher (RTDa) in General Botany (SSD BIO/01) at the University of Florence (UNIFI), Department of Biology, Via Micheli 3, 50121 Firenze.
PREVIOUS POSITION
2022 – 2023: Post-doc researcher at UNIFI, Dep. of Biology in “Environmental Sustainability”.
2020 – 2022: Post-doc researcher at UNIFI, Dep. of Chemistry in “Environmental Sustainability”.
2019 – 2020: Post-doc researcher at UNIFI, Dep. of Biology on “Nanoformulations for drug delivery in plants”.
2016 – 2019: Junior Researcher at INSTM, National Interuniversity Consortium of Materials Science and Technology Dep. of Chemistry in European project H2020 “MEDEAS - Modelling sustainable Energy system Development under Environmental and Socioeconomic constrains” and in POR Creo Fesr-2014-2020 project “Ecomaps”.
2014-2015: Post-doc researcher at UNIFI, Dep. of Chemistry in “Nanoformulations for drug delivery against microorganisms”
EDUCATION
2019 – Course on SEM Scanning Electron Microscopy (morphology and microanalysis) organized by MEMA (Centro di Servizi di Microscopia Elettronica e Microanalisi),
Università di Firenze, Firenze
2016 - System Dynamics Summer School
Delft, Netherlands
2015 -Hercules School 2015, in Structural and Molecular Biology,
Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble (France).
2014 – PhD in “Biomedical Science” (PhD title: 26/02/2014).
University of Florence, Italy.
2010 – Master's degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology.
2008 – Bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences.
PRIZES AND AWARDS
2023– Holder of habilitation for Associate Professor of BOTANICA (05/A1)
2015– Poster award (1st prize) at the "Hercules School 2015“, in Structural and Molecular Biology, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble (France).
2011 – Holder of habilitation for Italian Professional Qualification for Biology.
FELLOWSHIPS
2014 - Fellowship financed by the Department of Chemistry, University of Florence.
2012 - Annual fellowship financed by Ente Cassa di Risparmio, In onore di Jacopo Ficai, di Monte San Savino (AR).
2011 - Fellowship financed by Ce. S.A.L (CEntro Stabulazione Animali da Laboratorio).
SUPERVISION OF PhD AND POSTDOC STUDENTS
2023 onwards – Supervisor of 2 Bachelor Students, in “Biological Science”.
2021 Supervisor of Master’s thesis Franco Cheli entitled: Investigation of lignin nanocapsules uptake in plants, University of Turku, Faculty of Medicine, Master’s degree program in Biomedical Sciences, Specialization field: Biomedical Imaging.
2015 onwards – Co-supervisor of 3 Master Students in “Behavioral and Environmental Biology”, “Applied Molecular Biology” and “Biotechnology for Environmental Management and Sustainable Agriculture” and 28 Bachelor Students in “Biological Sciences”, “Biotechnology” and “Chemical Science”.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2023 onwards – Teaching the course: “Pharmaceutical Botany” for the Master's Degree in “Applied Molecular Biology – curriculum “health and nutrition biology”, University of Florence, Italy.
2023 onwards – Teaching the course: “Botany with laboratory” for the Bachelor's Degree in “Biological Science”, University of Florence, Italy.
2022 onwards – Co-teaching activity with Prof. Alessio Papini for the course: “General Botany” for the Bachelor’s Degree in Biological Science and “Biology of Algae” for the Master’s Degree in “Behavioral and Environmental Biology”, University of Florence, Italy.
2020–2022 – Co-teaching activity with Prof.ssa Schiff in the course: “Plant biology and physiology” for the Bachelor's Degree in “Viticulture and Enology”, University of Florence, Italy.
2014–2022 – Co-teaching activity with Prof.ssa Ristori in the course: “Nanosystems for Biotechnology” for the Bachelor’s Degree in Biotechnology, University of Florence, Italy.
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
2020 onwards– Subject Editor “Nanoparticles” for “Caryologia, International Journal of Cytology Cytosystematics and Cytogenetics”, Firenze University Press.
2020 onwards – Member of the Editorial Board for Microorganisms.
2019 onwards – Editorial Assistant for “Caryologia”
2015 onwards – Reviewer activity for several Journals
PROJECTS AND FUNDINGS
2023 – Participant in the PNRR project (funded by Italian Ministery of University and Research, MUR NRRP) "RETURN: multi-Risk sciEnce for resilienT commUnities undeR a changiNg climate" for the call 341/2022 PE3-Rischi ambientali, naturali e antropici.
2018 – Participant in the POR Creo Fesr-2014-2020 project (funded by POR FESR Toscana 2014-2020) “Ecomaps”.
2016 – Participant in Horizon 2020 Project (funding by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 691287). “MEDEAS: Modelling sustainable Energy system Development under Environmental and Socioeconomic constrains”.
MEMBERSHIP TO SCIENTIFIC NETWORK
2016 onwards – UniFi referent for Work Group “Resource and Waste” in the RUS Italian University Network for Sustainable Development.
