Projects coordination (PI or local unit PI)
- 2019-2020 – Caratterizzazione della speciazione chimica e del bioaccumulo del Mercurio mediante misure di isotopi e spettroscopia di assorbimento ai raggi-X – A research project funded by ARPA Umbria.
- 2019 – BC-HOR, Spatial Distributions of Black Carbon and Mineral Dust in Air and Snow Surface Layers upon Hornsund Glaciers, INTERACT Transnational Access and Remote Access call for s/s 2019 and a/w 2019-2020), Funded by H2020 (Grant Agreement No. 730938).
- 2018-2019 Chemical and biological markers in lacustrine sediments for a reconstruction of anthropic impacts on ecosystems – Fondo Ricerca di Base 2018 UNIPG (Principal Investigator).
- 2018-2020 BC-3D – Spatial Distributions of Black Carbon and Mineral Dust in Air and Snow Surface Layers upon Svalbard Glaciers – Principal Investigator – project n. 283466, funded by Norwegian Research Council through the Svalbard Strategic Grant (SSG) programme.
- 2018-2020 CRYODUST – Calderone Glacier: From environmental studies in a mountain environment to an evaluation of Chemical and Biogeographical effects of Saharn dust advections; Funded by Dipartimento per gli affari regionali, le autonomie e lo sport della Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri – Principal Investigator.
- 2017-2021 – SIDDARTA: Source IDentification of (mineral) Dust to AntaRcTicA – Programma Nazionale di Ricerca in Antartide, Bando PNRA 2016 – Local Unit Coordinator.
- Local Structure, Valence state and Solubility of Iron in Atmospheric Aerosol from Saharan Advections – Fondo Ricerca di Base 2015 UNIPG (Principal Investigator).
- 2016-2017 – SNOWDUST – Ghiacciaio del Calderone. Studio degli effetti chimici e biogeografici delle avvezioni di polveri sahariane in ambiente di montagna. Un approccio analitico e modellistico integrato per lo studio del ghiacciaio del Calderone (Gran Sasso d’Italia) – Funded by Dipartimento per gli affari regionali, le autonomie e lo sport della Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri – Principal Investigator.
- 2016 – AGAP-FLUX (PI): Atmospheric Gondola for Aerosol Profiling – Italian Arctic Data Center.
- 2016 – SINERGIA (coPI) : Fillobiorisanamento: utilizzo delle interazioni piante-batteri come strumento innovativo per il trattamento biologico di inquinanti volatili per la sicurezza negli impianti produttivi – (progetto BRIC-INAIL) in collaborazione con A.Franzetti (PI) Università Milano Bicocca.
- 2015 – AGAP (PI): Atmospheric Gondola for Aerosol Profiling – Italian Arctic Data Center.
- 2014-2015 – Biodiversity and biomagniification in lepidoptra: effects of atmospheric deposition and soil nature – (PI) – in collaboration with Dr. Enzo Goretti (DCBB), ARPA Umbria andl Dipartimento di Chimica of University of Bologna (Prof. Laura Tositti).
- 2013-2014: Coupling of climatic system components and physical, chemical and biological processes at the interface in the Arctic (coPI) – Progetto Bilaterale (MAE) PGR00168 (2013-2014) – Italia-Korea (PI: Dr. Vito Vitale, ISAC, CNR).
- 2012-2015: PMetro (PI) – Particulate matter monitoring in real time by means of a mobile station,(www.pmetro.it) funded by ARPA Umbria, Regione dell’Umbria and Comune di Perugia.
- 2012-2015 – Air quality: Source apportionment of particulate matter in urban environment in Umbria (PI) – in collaboration with ARPA Umbria.
- 2009-2010 Aerosol vertical profile by tethered balloon over the cities of Terni, Milano and Merano (PI), funded by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Terni e Narni and EURAC (Bolzano) in collaboration with Dr. Luca Ferrrero Univ. Milano-Bicocca (coPI) and Dr. Marcello Petitta (coPI) (EURAC, Bolzano);
- 2009 Realization of a high altitude air quality monitoring station for the study of transnational pollutants transport (PI), co-funded by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia;
- 2008-2012: Chemical and morphological characterization of particulate matter in Umbria (PI), funded by Regione Umbria.;
- 2005: Structure and dynamics of species of atmospheric interest of relevance for Greenhouse effect and global warming (PI), Galileo Project, Italian- France Coordinated action in collaboration with Dr. Beatrice Bussery (coPI) University of Rennes.
Project partecipazione as a researcher
- 2018 – Strengthening cooperation on air pollution research in Svalbard, funded by Norwegian Research Council through the Svalbard Strategic Grant (SSG) programme.
- 2017-2019 SAMEECA – Surface Atmosphere Mass and Energy Exchanges at a Coastal Antarctic site – Programma Nazionale di Ricerca in Antartide, Bando PNRA 2016
- 2017 – Iron speciation in Arctic snow – understanding processes and sources in the Spitzbergen region (Svalbard) – proposal N° 08-01 1045 – LISA beam lline (EXAFS-XANES) – Allocated beam time: 12 shifts. PI: Dr. Chiara Petroselli (DCBB).
- 2016 – Iron speciation and local order in industrial and urban aerosol and in Sahara dust: characterization of specific aerosol sources -experiment EV-201 – Grenoble Synchrotron Radiation Source (ESFR) – LISA beam lline (EXAFS-XANES) – Allocated beam time: 22-27 September 2016. PI: Dr. Chiara Petroselli (DCBB).
- 2016 – Le api come bioindicatori della qualità ambientale del territorio umbro – Progetto Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia, (PI Dr. Enzo Goretti)
- 2015-2016 – Caratterizzazione microbiologica del particolato atmosferico (PM10) nella conca ternana – Finanziato da Fondazione CARIT, Terni e Narni (Bando 2015).PI: Dr. Ermanno Federici (DCBB).
- 2015 – Red-ox speciation and mixing state of iron in Saharan dust – experiment 08-01-999 – Grenoble Synchrotron Radiation Source (ESFR) LISA beam lline (EXAFS-XANES) – Allocated beam time: 29 October-3 November 2015. PI: Dr. Beatrice Moroni (DCBB).
- 2010-2012 PRIN (bando 2008, 2008KJX4SN_003) – Dai processi elementari alla modellistica accurata di sistemi complessi. PI: Prof. F. Pirani (DCBB)
- 2006-2008 PRIN (bando 2005, 2005033911_001 ) Caratterizzazione delle forze intermolecolari e del loro ruolo nella dinamica dei processi elementari in sistemi di non equilibrio;
- 2004-2006 PRIN (bando 2004, ) Esperimenti con fasci molecolari per la caratterizzazione dell’energia potenziale intermolecolare coinvolta nei processi di aggregazione;
- 2003-2005 PRIN (bando 2003) Studio e caratterizzazione teorica e sperimentale di specie chimiche di interesse nei processi atmosferici;
- 2002-2003: Sticking of Oriented Molecules on Single Crystal Surfaces – PURS project at the Elettra Sincrotron Radiation Source (Trieste),
- 2000-2003: Generation, characterization and Reaction Dynamics of Multiply Charged Ions. EU Training and Mobility of researcher (TMR) project.
- 1999-2001 Modelli Avanzati per Simulazioni Termofluidodinamiche di Combustione e Prove Sperimentali con Diagnostica Avanzata su Bruciatori e Camere di Combustione – ENEA priority programme;
- 1999-2000: Dynamics of Charge-Transfer Processes – INFM PAIS project.
- 1996–1999: Potential Energy Surfaces for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics – EU Training and Mobility of researcher (TMR) project [Contract no. ERB-FMRX-CT96-0088]
- 1996–1997: Interactions of Oriented Molecules – Advanced Research Project of Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF, Bielefeld);
- 1993-1996 : Structure and Reactivity of Molecular Ions – EU Human capital and Mobility Network (HCM) project – Contract no. CHRX-CT93-0150]
