I am a postdoctoral researcher in the De Novo Synthetic Lab and Innovation Manager of the PhotosynH2 consortium. I completed my MSc in Plant Biotechnology at the University of Sassari, Italy. I then moved to Valencia, Spain, where I worked at IMBCP (Polytechnic University of Valencia), focusing on plant synthetic biology. Later, I pursued my PhD at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, where I expanded my expertise in microbial biotechnology, particularly in metabolic engineering, protein expression, and systems biology of cyanobacteria. Following my PhD, I worked as a research assistant at the University of Queensland, where I engineered the soil bacterium Pseudomonas putida to enhance its production of short-chain polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA). I also gained postdoctoral experience at the University of Padua, where my research focused on leveraging microorganisms for the biodegradation of plastic materials.
