Projects coordination (PI or local unit coordinator UC)
- 2025-2027 – One health per l’Umbria – WP lead.
- 2025-2027 – Sviluppo di un approccio di scoperta veloce ed allerta rapida per l’individuazione di specie aliene nel bacino del Lago Trasimeno, funded by Regione Umbria. PI
- 2024-2027 – PRIMAR – Potential Role of Sea Ice change in controlling Mercury in coastal Antarctic Areas, funded by MIUR through PNRA 2022 programme, UC
- 2025-2026 ECOROADS Innovative barriers for the mitigation of noise and chemical pollution generated by roads, PON (MIUR) UC
- 2023-2025 – SnowMed – Apennine snow cover in the Mediterranean climate region: multi-sensor data, observations, modeling and trend analysis, PRIN 2022, UC
- 2023-2026 Transfer – TRansport and circulation of Anthropogenic and Natural compounds in the Svalbard Fragile EnviRonment: an integrated approach, Progetti Ricerche in Artico (PRA INFRA 2021), UC
- 2022-2024 A multidisciplinary design approach to the study of climate and climate warming and its scientific,economic, and social impact on the Central Mediterranean continent, Funded by Fondo Ricerca di Ateneo esercizio 2021 (UNIPG). PI
- 2021-2023 BC14 – Fossil fuel contribution to Black Carbon deposition on Svalbard Glaciers, Svalbard Strategic Grant, (SSG, NRC), UC
- 2020-2022 – SMIVIA – Snow-coverage Modeling, Inversion and Validation using multi-mission multi-frequency Interferometric SAR in central Apennine, bando ASI (DC-UOT-2019-017) UC
- 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, PI.
- 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), PI
- 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), PI.
- 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, PI.
- 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 – PI.
- 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 – PI.
- 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]
