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PERSONAL DETAILS Name: Margherita

Surname: Pettinato

SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTIVITY INDICATORS H Index 2 (Scopus) with 22 citations. ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-5316-7694

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE October 2016-Ongoing

January 2018-June 2018

June 2018

Teaching support activities and tutorials to the official course of Chemical plants and processes of food industry, held by prof. P. Perego, for the Master program in Chemical Engineering. Department of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Polytechnic School, University of Genova, Italy. Teaching support activities and tutorials to the official course of Unit Operations and process plants: fundamentals and economic aspects, held by prof. P. Perego, for the B. Sc. program in Chemical Engineering. Department of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Polytechnic School, University of Genova, Italy. Participation at the research activities with the research group of Supercritical Fluid Plants of Prof. Reverchon in the University of Salerno, for what concerned the collaboration project entitled “ Extraction of bioactive compounds from spent coffee grounds by Supercritical fluid techniques”. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno, Italy.

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October 2016-March

2017 Adjunct Professor of the module of “Biofuel production” for the official course of Industrial and environmental biotechnologies, held by prof. A. Converti for the Master program in Chemical engineering. Department of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Polytechnic School, University of Genova, Italy.

July 2015-October 2015 Research fellowship on the topic “Membrane bioreactor combined with adsorption unit for heavy metal removal from drainage water”. Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management engineering, University of Calabria, Arcavata di Rende, Italy.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING November 2015-Ongoing Ph.D. in Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering-Curriculum

of Chemical Engineering and bioprocesses. The main research topic concerns the recovery and stabilization of high added-value compounds from agro-food industry by-products by non-conventional extraction techniques and microencapsulation. Department of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Polytechnic School, University of Genova, Italy.

September 2017 Ph.D. National School of GRICU 2017 (Group of Chemical

Engineering of the University) on the topic “Multi-scale modeling for chemical engineering from research in the lab to profitable applications”, Palermo, Italy.

September 2016

February 2016

Ph.D. National School of GRICU 2016 (Group of Chemical Engineering of the University) on the topic “Chemical engineering for sustainable production of energy and fine chemicals”, Anacapri, Italy. Participation to International Workshop on Industrial Waste-IWIW2016. Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Genoa, Genova, Italy.

February 2016

October 2015- January 2016

Government exam and licensed as a professional industrial engineer (Cosenza, Italy). Participation to the course “Il sistema della ricerca europea: esperienze a confronto”. University of Genoa, Genova, Italy.

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May 2015 Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL-iBT) certificate. Final score 83/120 (B2).

April 2015 Participation to seminars “Environmental and soil defense: the efforts of University of Calabria”. University of Calabria.

March 2015-April 2015 Participation to seminars TIA (Innovative Technologies for the Environment) on the characterization, treatment and enhancement of pollutants, sewage and waste. University of Calabria.

September 2011-February 2015

Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering, final score 107/110. Master thesis: Metal polluted wastewater treatment by adsorption on eggshell coupled with membrane bioreactor: an experimental study. Department of Engineering for the environment and territory preservation and Chemical Engineering, University of Calabria, Italy. Major fields of study: transport phenomena, multiphase reactors, chemical process dynamics and control, industrial chemistry, chemical plants design, rheology, food systems, solid processing plants, power plants, sustainable processing of pollutants, safety in process industry, theory of chemical processes development.

September 2007-September 2011

Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, final score 102/110. Thesis: Citrus juices stabilization by ultrafiltration: theoretic and experimental analysis. Department of Material and Chemical Engineering, University of Calabria, Italy. Major fields of study: thermodynamics, chemical unit operations, chemical reactors, applied chemical technologies, design of equipment for the chemical industry, industrial biotechnologies, transport properties in food and biotechnological processes, engineering materials.

2002-2007 High School Diploma in Classical Studies. Final score100/100.

High School specializing in classical studies “P.Galluppi”, Catanzaro, Italy.

PUBLICATIONS

Margherita Pettinato, Alessandro Alberto Casazza, Pier Francesco Ferrari, Domenico Palombo, Patrizia Perego, 2018. Eco-sustainable recovery of antioxidants from spent coffee grounds by microwave-assisted extraction: process optimization, kinetic modeling and biological validation. Submitted to “Food and bioproducts processing” and under minor revision.

Margherita Pettinato, Bahar Aliakbarian, Alessandro A. Casazza, Patrizia Perego, 2017. Encapsulation of Antioxidants from Spent Coffee Ground Extracts by Spray Drying. Chemical Engineering Transactions, 57, pp 1219-1224.

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Margherita Pettinato, Debolina Mukherjee, Silvestro Andreoli, Eros Rosalbino Minardi, Vincenza Calabro, Stefano Curcio and Sudip Chakraborty, 2015. Industrial Waste-an economical Approach for Adsorption of Heavy Metals from Ground Water. American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 8 (1), pp 48-56 .

M. Pettinato, S. Chakraborty, Hassan A. Arafat, V. Calabro', 2015. Eggshell: A green adsorbent for heavy metal removal in an MBR system. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 121, pp 52-67.

POSTERS AND ORAL PRESENTATIONS IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES

Poster presentation. “Encapsulation of antioxidants from spent coffee ground extracts by spray drying”. Margherita Pettinato, Bahar Aliakbarian, Alessandro A. Casazza, Patrizia Perego. IcheaP13, Milan, Italy, 28-31 May 2017.

Poster presentation. “Microwave-Assisted Extraction of high added value compounds from spent coffee grounds” - Margherita Pettinato, Alessandro Alberto Casazza, Bahar Aliakbarian, Patrizia Perego. Workshop Federchimica 2017, Genoa, Italy, 24 May 2017.

Poster Presentation. "Recupero di antiossidanti da Arthrospira platensis: estrazione di polifenoli mediante alte pressioni e temperature e successiva purificazione" - Alessandro A. Casazza, Pier F. Ferrari, Bahar Aliakbarian, Margherita Pettinato, Federica Novelli, Attilio Converti, Patrizia Perego. GRICU Meeting 2016- Gli orizzonti 2020 dell'ingegneria chimica", Anacapri, Italy, 12-14 September 2016.

Oral presentation. “Estrazione assistita da microonde di composti ad alto valore aggiunto da caffè esausto” -Margherita Pettinato, Alessandro Alberto Casazza, Bahar Aliakbarian, Vincenza Calabro’ , Patrizia Perego. GRICU Meeting 2016- Gli orizzonti 2020 dell’Ingegneria Chimica, Anacapri, Naples, Italy, 12-14 September 2016.

THESIS SUPERVISION AS CO-ADVISOR

Francesca Mazzocco, “Caffeine and chlorogenic acid recovery from spent coffee grounds: extraction optimization and extract biological validation”, 2017, Master’s Degree in Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacy, University of Genoa.

Matteo Tirasso, “FCM’s study on chemico-physical analysis of packaging and comparison of the environmental impact of different materials along the life cycle”, 2017, Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering, Department of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Genoa.

Emanuela Drago,“Microparticle production by spray dryer and validation with CFD simulation”, 2018, Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering, Department of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Genoa.

Emanuele Farinini, “Innovative Extraction of lycopene and extract biological evaluation”, 2018, Master’s Degree in Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacy, University of Genoa.

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PROJECTS

Milan Center of Food low and Policy, “Wood materials in contact with food (MOCA): a container of cultural and biochemical value”, 2016-2017, Milan, Italy.

The Master thesis and the research fellowship “Metal polluted wastewater treatment by

adsorption on eggshell coupled with membrane bioreactor: an experimental study” were part of the research project financed by Project PON Res Novae- Reti Edifici Strade Nuovi Obiettivi Virtuosi per l’Ambiente e l’Energia (Cod. PON04a2_E).

SKILLS & COMPETENCES

Organizational skills, determination, good communication, self-motivated; Team working skills; Operational, management and maintenance skills for laboratory devices and chemicals; Basic design of unit operations and chemical plants; Good command of Microsoft Office tools, Design and Simulation Software such as Unisim

Design, Solid Works, Matlab. Basic skills in java compiling.

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