Curriculum

Short biography

Dr. Genchi (H index: 23, 1636 citations on Scopus since 2011) is Researcher on tenure track in Industrial Bioengineering (SSD ING-IND/34) at the University of Bari "Aldo Moro" in Bari, Italy. She is also Affiliated Researcher at the Smart Bio-Interfaces Research Unit of the Center for Materials Interfaces of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Pontedera, Italy. Dr. Genchi conducts research on micro- and nanofabrication of smart materials, materials characterization, tissue engineering with smart materials and recombinant DNA, and space biology. She is recipient of several awards (among which, the "Salvatore Venuta" prize in Nanomedicine in 2011) and has strong expertise in planning and implementing experiments under altered gravity conditions, including flight on board the International Space Station, by participation to the following national and international projects: Transformers (European Space Agency-ESA 2014), PlanOx (ESA, 2015), NanoROS (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana-ASI, 2017), NOEMI (ESA, Cariplo, 2019), InterGravity (ESA, 2022), and Nichoid in Space (ESA, 2022). She is Co-Principal Investigator of the PROMETEO project (ASI), and Coordinator of the 2022 PNRR PRIN REPAIR project (Italian Ministry of University and Research).

Main achievements

National qualifications as Associate Professor in the following fields:

02/B1 Experimental Matter Physics
02/D1 Applied Physics, Didactics and History of Physics
09/D1 Materials Science and Technology
09/G2 Bioengineering

Education

2013 Ph.D. in Innovative Technologies, Curriculum: Biorobotics, 100/100 with honors, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (SSSA), Italy

2010 M.Sc. in Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology, 110/110 with honors, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy

2007 B.Sc. in Biotechnology for the Innovation of Processes and Products, 110/110 with honors, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy

Awards

European Doctoral Award 2014; 26th Annual Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials, August 31-September 3, 2014 Liverpool UK

Young Investigator Award, 6th National Congress of the Italian Society for Space Biomedicine and Biotechnology, October 25-27, 2012 Brindisi, Italy

Salvatore Venuta Prize in Nanomedicine, 4th Annual NanoGagliato conference, July 23-27, 2011 Gagliato, Italy