Researcher
Scientific Area: Physical Chemistry

Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale
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Chiara Pelosi received her PhD in Chemistry and Material Science in 2021 from the University of Pisa, under the co-supervision of Professor Maria Rosaria Tinè (University of Pisa, Italy) and Professor Frederik Wurm (University of Twente, the Netherland). She spent 2 years as a postdoctoral fellow, working for the project: ”Materiali di nuova generazione per il restauro di beni culturali: nuovo approccio alla fruizione di AGM for CuHe: Advanced Green Materials for Cultural Heritage.” Since January 2023 until June 2025 she was a young researcher (RTD-A) at the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry of the University of Pisa. During these years she had a teaching assignment in the course “Laboratorio di Chimica-Fisica II” for the bachelor students of the Chemistry course. She is currently enrolled as a Tenure Track researcher (RTT) at the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry of the University of Pisa and she is a participant of the PRIN project P2022HWL7L “nAtural materials DEvelopment from COllagen-based Wastes: ArtDECOW”.

Her research deals with the physical-chemical characterization of biomacromolecules and materials in solution and in the solid-state, with a focus on thermal analysis, calorimetry and rheology. In particular, she deals with the application of these techniques on the following matrices:

• Deep Eutectic Solvents;
• Protein-polymer conjugates with biomedical applications;
• New generation materials for cultural heritages;
• Composite materials made by synthetic or natural polymers and animal extracted fibers.
  
  

In 2021, she won the “Alberto Lucci” prize of Italian Association of Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis (AICAT), the II edition INSTM/Polymer Award Ex-equo special prize for the video quality and the communication skills, and during the years she won in various conferences 1 best oral award and 2 best poster awards. She is (co)author of more than 30 peer-reviewed scientific papers.