Professori Associati

Professori Associati

Simona RANALLO

Professore Associato SSD: CHEM-01/A Chimica AnaliticaStanza: F0 – 9
Telefono: (+39) 06 7259 4421
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Simona Ranallo is Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Science and Technologies of the University of Rome Tor Vergata. During her PhD she was a visiting researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara (USA) and at the University of Montréal (Canada). As post-doc, she obtained her own funding through competitive individual fellowships: 2019 Umberto Veronesi Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship and Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) Individual Global Fellowship for the development of novel optical and electrochemical DNA-based sensors for diagnostic applications. As part of her MSCA she spent two years as post-doc researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara, working in the group headed by Prof. Kevin Plaxco. As an Assistant Professor she started a new line of research to develop cell-free systems for diagnostic and drug delivery applications. This line of research aims to merge the fields of DNA nanotechnology and synthetic biology by exploiting the high programmability of nucleic acids with the high specificity of cellular machinery. In 2024 she was awarded with an ERC Staring Grant from the European Research Council and with a FIS2 – Fondo Italiano per la Scienza from the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR). Her trajectory has also been recognized with several awards, including: “2014 Best Thesis”, “2019 Primo Levi Award, post-doc category” and “Premio Cristina Giovannoli 2022”.