Ph.D. candidate
Analytical Chemistry
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Website: dscm.dcci.unipi.it/reale-serena
Address: Via G. Moruzzi, 13 - 56124 Pisa Italy

Research
Mass spectrometry, Thin film Microextraction, Chemical communication, Gas Chromatography.

Biography
Serena Reale is a third-year PhD candidate in Chemistry and Material Science at the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Pisa under the supervision of Prof. Fabio Di Francesco and Prof. Tommaso Lomonaco. Her scholarship is funded by SRA Instruments S.p.A. and Metitech srl. She joined Prof. Fabio Di Francesco’s group during her master’s thesis and a subsequent one-year research fellowship, during which she began focusing on solid-phase microextraction techniques to collect volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds emitted from human skin. In her doctoral studies, she is further exploring Thin Film Microextraction (TFME) and specializing in one- and multidimensional gas chromatography techniques coupled with mass spectrometry.

Education
• PhD in Chemistry and Material Science, University of Pisa, 2023-now
• Research scholarship at Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, "Optimization of Analytical Procedures Based on Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Techniques for the Chemical Characterization of Skin Emissions” 2022-2023
• Master’s degree in Analytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Pisa, 2022
• Bachelor’s degree in chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Pisa, 2020

Research interests
Serena’s research focuses on developing methods for sampling human skin volatiles using solid-phase microextraction techniques and mass spectrometry approaches, such as one- and two-dimensional gas chromatography and online mass spectrometry techniques like PTR-TOF.