Research
Sensors, biosensor, biorecognition elements, nanobiotechnology and electrochemistry.
Biography
Andrea Bonini is currently a Tenure-Track Researcher (RTT) in Analytical Chemistry at Università degli Studi di Firenze. He was a post-doc fellow at Single-molecule biophysics research group at Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute (GBB), working on biological nanopores to develop new protein sequencing and biosensor technologies. Previously he was post-doc fellow in the CATS research group at the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry of the University of Pisa, and in the Microbiology and Molecular Biology research group at the Department of Biology of the same University.
He performed his bachelor, master and PhD degree in the CATS group.
During his PhD, he has been visiting student in the Nanobioelectronics and biosensors group at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) under the supervision of Prof. Arben Merkoçi.
Education
PhD, Chemistry and Material Science, University of Pisa, July 2022
M.S., Industrial Chemistry, University of Pisa, 2018.
Research interests
Andrea’s research interests are focused on the development of new sensor and biosensor devices to address and overcome the issues associated to the use of conventional techniques in clinical diagnostic and environmental quality assessment. In particular, he is enthusiastic about the study, discovery and modification of new biological elements to develop innovative biologically inspired biosensors.

Research
Sensors, gene editing, biosensors for diagnostics and health monitoring.
Biography
Noemi Poma majored in Biological Sciences in 2015 at the University Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia. In 2016-2017, she was awarded with a fellowship from European Union and joined professor Arianna Tavanti’s research group at the Department of Biology of the University of Pisa, Italy. She received her Ph.D. in Chemistry and Material Science at the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Pisa, in 2021. She is currently post-doctoral fellow at the Biology department of University of Pisa.
Education
PhD, Chemistry and Material Science, University of Pisa, 2021.
Post- Graduate Scholarship Erasmus Mundus Puedes-Italy, 2016-2017.
M.Sc. Biology, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés-Bolivia, 2015.
Research interests
Noemi Poma’s interests include antimicrobial resistance mechanisms and the development of electrochemical sensors and biosensors for clinical applications.

Research
Human body chemistry, high-resolution mass spectrometry, analytical chemistry, study design, data processing and statistical analysis.
Biography
Tobias Bruderer, Ph.D. was a researcher in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Pisa. He was working on the Horizon 2020 POTION project, to investigate human chemical communication of the emotions fear and joy, through emission and perception of sweat volatiles. He received his graduate degree in Environmental Science from the ETH Zurich in 2010, and his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Geneva in 2016. In 2016 he joined the Zenobi group at the ETH Zurich and the Moeller group at the University Children’s Hospital Zurich as a postdoctoral researcher as part of the Zurich Exhalomics initiative. In 2020, he went to the University of Pisa to join the Di Francesco group to work on the POTION project.
Education
Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry, Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry Laboratory
of Prof. Gérard Hopfgartner, Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland
M.Sc. of Science at the ETH Zurich, Environmental Sciences (with major in environmental chemistry), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
B.Sc. of Science at the ETH Zurich, Environmental Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
Research interests
His main research interest is the interface of human body chemistry and the mind, and more recently the endocrine system. His focus is on experiment design for studies with humans, the chemical analysis with high-resolution mass spectrometry (UHPLC-HRMS, GCxGC-HRMS, and on-line PTR-HRMS), data processing and statistical analysis, and more recently bringing together the results across the disciplines involved in the POTION project (analytical chemistry, neuroscience, psychology, and technology development).

Research
Chromatographic techniques, mass spectrometry, proteomics, minimally invasive diagnostics, and health monitoring.
Biography
Alessio Lenzi was a post-doc fellow and previously Ph.D. student at the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry of the University of Pisa. His Ph.D. project aimed at the development of an innovative analytical workflow based on UHPLC-MS/MS analysis for the determination of natriuretic peptides in biological fluids, known as golden biomarkers of heart failure. He is currently Mass Spectrometry Technician at the Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Pisa.
Education
Ph.D. in Chemistry and Material Science, Universita' di Pisa, 2024
Master’s degree in Analytical Chemistry, Università di Pisa, 2020
Bachelor’s degree, Chemistry, Universita' di Pisa, 2017
Research interests
Alessio Lenzi’s research interests are at the interface of analytical chemistry and medicine, with an emphasis on the development of chromatographic and mass spectrometric techniques employed for clinical purposes such as the identification and quantification of chemical markers in body fluids. Recently, his interests also involved the analysis and characterization of proteins and peptides by using mass-spectrometric techniques.

Research
Sensors, nanomaterials, inorganic chemistry, semiconductors, gas sensors, thin films, device prototypisation.
Biography
Elena Eremeeva was a PhD student in Chemistry and Material Sciences at the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry of the University of Pisa in the Chemistry Lab for Analytical Technologies (CATS). Her main project was dedicated to designing and manufacturing chemoresistance gas sensors on the base of semiconductor materials. Her path as a researcher started during her master’s course. She was involved in projects connected with synthesising and applying nanomaterials for optical and anticounterfeiting purposes. That experience gave her skills in inorganic synthesis (sol-gel, hydrothermal, mechanical activation), deposition methods (inkjet-printing, spin-coating, dip-coating) and characterisation of the obtained materials (UV-Vis spectroscopy, AFM, SEM, XRD, z-potential, rheometry).
Education
Ph.D., Chemistry and Material Sciences, Università di Pisa, 2025
M.S., Biotechnology, ITMO University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 2018
Research interests
For Elena, the most attractive part of the research activity is the possibility of the logical solution to the posed problem with some limited start conditions set. She is fascinated by the idea of using nanomaterials for low-cost devices such as sensors which you can use in your kitchen, work or factory spaces for different purposes.

Research
Bioanalytical chemistry, Nanoelectrochemistry, Biosensors, Chemometrics, Impedance Spectroscopy, Bacterial infections, Medicine.
Biography
Zahraalsadat Yousefniayejahromi was a PhD student in chemical and material science at Pisa University. Her research interests focus on biosensors, bioanalytical chemistry, and nanomaterials. Zahra graduated in analytical chemistry from Yazd University and received research grant from Iran Nanotechnology initiative council for master thesis project. Further and even more importantly, she recently published several articles on nanoelectrodes to measure Salicylate Ion in Aspirin tablet which in turn lead to prevent some illness. After graduation, she worked in drug companies as a chemical technician for several years. During her PhD, she was working on the construction of modified electrodes based on nanomaterials and biological mechanisms to detect infectious diseases at early stage under the supervision of Prof. Fabio Di Francesco.
Education
Ph.D., Chemistry and Material Science, Pisa University
M.S., Analytical Chemistry, Yazd University, Iran
BSc, Applied Chemistry, Shiraz University, Iran
Research interests
Zahra Yousefnia’s research areas of interest include nano(bio)technology, nanomaterials, (bio)sensors, electrochemistry, and constructing low-cost biomarkers for clinical diagnosis and the development of analytical tools for biomedical applications.