Affiliation: Fondazione Pisana Per La Scienza ONLUS

After earning an MSc in Photochemistry and Material Chemistry from the University of Bologna, Dr. Valentina Castagnola completed a PhD in Micro- and Nano-Systems in 2014 from the Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems. Her research focused on designing and implementing neural probes for brain stimulation and recording. In 2015, she joined the Center for Bionano Interactions at University College Dublin, where she began working with organic and inorganic nanomaterials and their interactions with biofluids and cells. Since 2020, she has been a researcher at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. In addition to this role, she serves as a tenure-track researcher at the Fondazione Pisana per la Scienza ONLUS in Pisa, where she continues her work on functional hybrid nanomaterials for applications in neuroscience.