Dr. Silvia Panzavolta

Prof. Dr. Silvia Panzavolta is an associate professor in Inorganic Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry “G. Ciamician” of the University of Bologna, where she teaches General and Inorganic Chemistry, Applied Biomaterials, and Bioinorganic Chemistry. She got her PhD in Chemistry in 1999, and in 2019 she became an associate professor at the University of Bologna. Her research activity mainly focuses on the development and characterization of sustainable biomaterials for tissue regeneration, including (a) design of biomaterials for soft and hard tissue replacement, including calcium phosphates bone cement and biopolymer-based scaffolds; (b) design of biomaterials with antibacterial activity, including coating of biomaterials by metal nanoparticles and Metal-Organic Frameworks as inorganic antibacterial systems and for drug delivery purposes; (c) use of sustainable biopolymers as film-forming materials for applications in the field of cosmetic, pharmaceutic and packaging.