Dr. Valeria Califano
Institute of Sciences and Technologies for Sustainable Energy and Mobility (STEMS), Italy
Biography
Valeria Califano Graduated in Industrial Chemistry at the University of Naples Federico II, She obtained her doctorate in 2005 at the Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie des Matériaux Luminescents (LPCML) at Claude Bernard Lyon University, France. The PhD thesis focused on the "Structural study of oxide-based glasses for non-linear optics: growth of nanostructures and the effect of an electric field ('poling')." From 2006 to 2009 she worked as a research fellow in the Applied Optics laboratory of the Ettore Pacini Department of Physics, at the Federico II University of Naples. In 2009 she won a scholarship at the then Istituto Motori (CNR), now STEMS, where she became a researcher in 2011. Her research field ranges from the immobilization of enzymes for the production of liquid biofuels, to CO2 capture by hybrid materials based on mesoporous silica and amines, laser deposition of thin films and formulation, characterization and analysis of the combustion of water/oil emulsions.