Dottorandi - XXXV Ciclo
|
Ph.D. Student |
PIETRO BARBACCIA |
 |
|
|
|
Pietro.barbaccia@unipa.it |
|
Orcid ID |
|
|
Location |
Department of Agricultural, Food, and Forest Sciences (SAAF), Viale delle Scienze, Building 4 |
|
Profile |
- Bachelor degree in Agricultural science (L 25) at University of Palermo - Master’s degree in Firm and Quality for the Agricultural and Food System – curriculum Management of Agri-zootechnical enterprises (LM-69) at University of Palermo - Awarded a 3-year PhD scholarship funded by the Università degli Studi di Palermo in November 2019 |
|
Expertise |
Sampling of soil; direct microbial analysis; indirect microbial analysis; chemico-physical analysis of soil samples. |
|
Tutor |
Prof. Giuseppe Lo Papa |
|
Co-tutor |
Prof. Luca Settanni |
|
Thesis topics |
Soil Microbiology; anthropogenic soils; influence of microbial population in soils created by men |
|
Research interests |
Soil microbial communities and anthropogenic soils of Sicily |
|
Link to publications (IRIS data-base) |
LINK IRIS |
|
International Mobility |
|
|
Ph.D. Student |
DANIELA ANTONINA TRIPPA |
|
Photo |
 |
|
|
danielaantonina.trippa@unipa.it |
|
Orcid ID |
|
|
Location |
Department of Agricultural, Food, and Forest Sciences (SAAF), Viale delle Scienze, Building 4 |
|
Profile |
From 2019 to present: a PhD student at the Università degli Studi di Palermo, Department of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Sciences From June 2019 to December 2019: Analysis and quality technician at ORTOGEL SPA, Caltagirone. From January 2019 to April 2019: Winner of a 4-month research grant at Di3A (University of Catania) within the research program “Physico-chemical characterization of extracts from agro-industrial waste”, directed by Prof. Rosa Palmeri. From June 2018 to September 2018: Winner of a 3-month research grant at Di3A within the research program "Production of extracts with a high hydroxytyrosol content by enzymatic biotransformation", directed by Prof. Rosa Palmeri. June 2018: Part of a team winning the "Agrorà Innovation" - Call for Ideas created by the Citrus District of Sicily and the Alta Scuola Arces with support from the Coca-Cola Foundation with the 'Agragliette' project. From October 2015- June 2017: Master's Degree in Food Science and Technology (LM-70) |
|
Expertise |
Nucleic acid extraction; PCR, LAMP methods; primer design; hplc analysis; determination of antioxidant activity and total polyphenols; Development of enzymatic assays and evaluation of enzymatic activity in selected yeast strains; Extraction and purification of bioactive components from food and non-food matrices; Chemical-physical and nutritional analyzes on food and non-food matrices. |
|
Tutor |
Prof. Francesco Paolo Marra |
|
Co-tutor |
Prof.ssa Annalisa Marchese |
|
Thesis topics |
Research of biomarkers that allow the development of early diagnostic methods in the field |
|
Research interests |
Olea europaea L. |
|
Link to publications (IRIS data-base) |
|
|
International Mobility |
Research internship with the University of California, Davis (U.S.A.) |
|
Ph.D. Student |
LUCA GIUGA |
|
Photo |
 |
|
|
luca.giuga@unipa.it |
|
Orcid ID |
|
|
Location |
Department of Agricultural, Food, and Forest Sciences (SAAF), Viale delle Scienze, Building 5 |
|
Profile |
PhD student |
|
Expertise |
Faunal surveys; micro-arthropods microscopy (e.g. phase contrast and DIC microscopes; sample preparation for SEM), sampling (eg. collecting undisturbed soil samples) and extraction (eg. Berlese–Tullgren funnel, Winkler bag) methods; essays on the effectiveness and reliability of indices of biological soil quality |
|
Tutor |
Prof.ssa Gabriella Lo Verde |
|
Co-tutor |
Prof. Luigi Badalucco |
|
Thesis topics |
Influence of different soil maintenance practices on soil micro-arthropods communities and their use as indicators of the biological quality of the soil in Mediterranean vineyards |
|
Research interests |
Soil arthropod communities (especially systematics and ecology of Collembola) |
|
Link to publications (IRIS data-base) |
LINK IRIS |
|
International Mobility |
Departamento de Biología Ambiental, Universidad de Navarra (13/10/2021 – 15/12/2021) |
|
Ph.D. Student |
PAOLA BAMBINA |
|
Photo |
 |
|
|
paola.bambina@unipa.it |
|
Orcid ID |
|
|
Location |
Department of Agricultural, Food, and Forest Sciences (SAAF), Viale delle Scienze, Building 4 |
|
Profile |
|
|
Expertise |
Oenological chemistry, Targeted Metabolomics, Non-Targeted Metabolomics, 1H-NMR spectroscopy, Terroir, Soil chemistry |
|
Tutor |
Prof. Onofrio Corona |
|
Co-tutor |
Prof. Pellegrino Conte |
|
Thesis topics |
Targeted and non-targeted Metabolomics to assess the impact of soil type on the chemical composition of autochthonous Sicilian wines |
|
Research interests |
Mechanisms guiding the expression of terroir, with particular reference to soil, in red and white wines |
|
Link to publications (IRIS data-base) |
|
|
International Mobility |
|
|
Ph.D. Student |
TUGCAN ALINC |
|
Photo |
 |
|
|
tugcan.alinc@unipa.it |
|
Orcid ID |
|
|
Location |
Department of Agricultural, Food, and Forest Sciences (SAAF), Viale delle Scienze, Building 5 |
|
Profile |
- Bachelor degree in ‘Plant Protection’ at the Çukurova University, Turkey, 2015 - Master of Science in Entomology at the Çukurova University, Turkey, 2019
|
|
Expertise |
Applied research on trophic interactions, insect ecology and biological pest control |
|
Tutor |
Prof. Ezio Peri |
|
Co-tutor |
Prof. Stefano Colazza |
|
Thesis topics |
The research activities focus on the role played by beneficial soil microbe in mediating plant defenses against stink bugs
|
|
Research interests |
Plant-insect-microbe interactions; chemical ecology; behavioural ecology; integrated pest management |
|
Link to publications (IRIS data-base) |
|
|
International Mobility |
Research period abroad at KU Leuven (Belgium), PME&BIM Laboratory, from January 2022 to July 2022 |
|
Ph.D. Student |
DAVIDE BORGIA |
|
Photo |
 |
|
|
davide.borgia@unipa.it |
|
Orcid ID |
|
|
Location |
Department of Agricultural, Food, and Forest Sciences (SAAF), Viale delle Scienze, Building 4, entry “L”, second floor |
|
Profile |
- Bachelor degree in Agricultural Sciences (L-25) at the University of Perugia (2016) - Master Degree in Agricultural Production (LM-69) at the University of Pisa (2019) - Erasmus study-abroad period at the Agricultural University of Athens, Athens-Greece - Post-degree traineeship at the Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible (CSIC), Cordoba-Spain |
|
Expertise |
Agronomy, field crops, research in intercropping; botany, geobotany |
|
Tutor |
Prof. Dario Giambalvo |
|
Co-tutor |
Prof. Alfonso Salvatore Frenda |
|
Thesis topics |
Intercropping of durum wheat and lentil for grain production in Mediterranean environments |
|
Research interests |
Professional: Agronomy, agroecology, fields crops, cereals, legumes, wheat, lentil, intercropping, soil tillage techniques Personal: botany, systematic botany, geobotany, vegetation science, phytosociology |
|
Link to publications (IRIS data-base) |
|
|
International Mobility |
01/2022-03/2022: INRAe Toulouse (France) |
|
Ph.D. Student |
NICOLO' AUTERI |
|
Photo |
 |
|
|
nicolo.auteri@unipa.it |
|
Orcid ID |
|
|
Location |
Department of Agricultural, Food, and Forest Sciences (SAAF), Viale delle Scienze, Building 4, entrance L, 2° Plan |
|
Profile |
- Studied at the Università degli Studi di Palermo (Italy) where in 2019 he graduated in Forestry and Agro-Environmental Science and Technology (LM-73) - Awarded a 3-year PhD scholarship in 2019, funded by the Università degli Studi di Palermo |
|
Expertise |
Phosphorus cycle; Phosphorus recovery techniques; Soil fertility; Erosion |
|
Tutor |
Dott. Filippo Saiano |
|
Co-tutor |
Prof. Riccardo Scalenghe |
|
Thesis topics |
The recovery of phosphorus dispersed in surface run-off water through the re-use of agricultural waste materials as fertilizer |
|
Research interests |
Identification of sustainable solutions that ensure the reduction of phosphorus losses as well as the recovery of these lost fractions |
|
Link to publications (IRIS data-base) |
|
|
International Mobility |
Research activity at the Université de Poitiers (FR) lasting 6 months during the academic year 2020/21 |
| Ph.D. Student | CASSANDRA FUNSTEN |
| Photo |  |
| cassandra.funsten@unipa.it | |
| Orcid ID | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4443-8322 |
|
Location |
Department of Agricultural, Food, and Forest Sciences (SAAF), Viale delle Scienze, Building 4, Entrance A |
|
Profile |
- Bachelor of Arts in “Landscape Architecture” at the University of California, Berkeley, 2005; - Bachelor of Arts in “English” at the University of California, Berkeley, 2005; - Master’s degree in “Agricultural productions and technologies” - “Park and garden planning and management” curriculum (LM-69), at the Università degli Studi di Palermo, 2018, graduated cum laude and awarded special mention for the thesis: “Il Giardino del Chiostro del Museo Archeologico ‘Antonino Salinas’”; - Awarded a PhD position in Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences in 2019 with a 3-year grant financed by the Università degli Studi di Palermo. |
|
Expertise |
Park and garden conservation; management and tourism; landscape policy; landscape economics and valuation; social and spatial research methods and analysis tools; interdisciplinary and mixed-methods research.
|
|
Tutor |
Prof. Emanuele Schimmenti |
|
Co-tutor |
Prof. Valeria Borsellino |
|
Thesis topics |
The economic and social sustainability of Sicilian historic gardens |
|
Research interests |
Social sustainability; cultural landscapes; cultural ecosystem services; non-market valuation; environmental, heritage and landscape policy; cultural landscapes and wellbeing; landscape equity, evidence-based and participatory design; human and environmental geography; quantitative/qualitative and social/spatial mixed-methods research.
|
|
Link to publications (IRIS data-base) |
LINK IRIS |
|
International Mobility |
Research period abroad planned at Cardiff University (U.K.), School of Geography and Planning, date to be determined. |
|
Ph.D. Student |
ELISEO ROMA |
|
Photo |
|
|
|
eliseo.roma@unipa.it |
|
Orcid ID |
|
|
Location |
Department of Agricultural, Food, and Forest Sciences (SAAF), Viale delle Scienze, Building 4 |
|
Profile |
- Studied at the University of Palermo (Italy) - In 2017, graduated in “Agricultural Sciences and Technology” (L-25) cum laude - In 2019, graduated in “Agricultural Productions and Technologies” (LM-69) cum laude - Since 2019, a PhD student in the Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences |
|
Expertise |
Main areas of research concern the application of different remote and proximal sensing data acquisition platforms in agriculture for the discrimination and detection of different stress levels. |
|
Tutor |
Prof. Pietro Catania |
|
Co-tutor |
Prof.ssa Mariangela Vallone |
|
Thesis topics |
Precision farming and Smart Agriculture |
|
Research interests |
Precision farming and Smart Agriculture |
|
Link to publications (IRIS) |
|
|
International Mobility |
International PhD Mobility, Erasmus +and Erasmus Traineeship at Universitat Politècnica de València UPV, Spain from September 2021 to July 2022. |
|
Ph.D. Student |
MATTEO IPPOLITO |
|
Photo |
|
|
|
matteo.ippolito@unipa.it |
|
Orcid ID |
|
|
Location |
Department of Agricultural, Food, and Forest Sciences (SAAF), Viale delle Scienze, Building 4 entrance L |
|
Profile |
- Graduated cum laude at the Università degli Studi di Palermo (Italy), in 2019 obtaining an MSc in Environmental Engineering (LM35); - Started the PhD course in Agricultural, Food, and Forest Sciences in November, 2019, with a fellowship funded by the research project PRIN 2017 “INtegrated Computer modelling and monitoring for Irrigation Planning in ITaly – INCIPIT”. |
|
Expertise |
Spatial Analysis, Satellite Image Processing, GIS and Hyperspectral Remote Sensing, Big data analysis with Matlab |
|
Tutor |
Prof. Giuseppe Provenzano |
|
Co-tutor |
Ing. Mario Minacapilli |
|
Thesis topics |
Irrigation management at different spatial scales and, more specifically, the estimation of actual crop evapotranspiration and crop coefficients by using remote sensing data. |
|
Research interests |
Irrigation management, environmental monitoring, climate database processing and applications of water balance models with remote sensing data |
|
Link to publications (IRIS data-base) |
|
|
International Mobility |
Period of research activities at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica y del Medio Natural of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) |
|
Ph.D. Student |
BEPPE BENEDETTO COSENTINO |
|
Photo |
|
|
|
beppebenedetto.consentino@unipa.it |
| Orcid ID | |
|
Location |
Department of Agricultural, Food, and Forest Sciences (SAAF), Viale delle Scienze, Building 5 |
|
Profile |
- Bachelor Degree in “Agricultural Engineering” at the Università degli Studi di Palermo, 2017 - Master Degree in “Agricultural productions and technologies” at the Università degli Studi di Palermo, 2019 |
|
Expertise |
Plant propagation, biofortification of crops, herbaceous grafting, biostimulant application |
|
Tutor |
Prof. Fabio D’Anna |
|
Co-tutor |
Prof. Giuseppe Di Miceli |
|
Thesis topics |
Direct and indirect effects of biofortification on quanti-qualitative aspects of vegetable species and its interaction with other agronomic techniques |
|
Research interests |
Biofortification, biostimulant, herbaceous grafting, plant propagation |
|
Link to publications (IRIS data-base) |
|
|
International Mobility |
Research period abroad at the Agricultural University of Athens from 01/07/2021 to 30/09/2021 |
|
Ph.D. Student |
SERENA SOFIA |
|
Photo |
 |
|
|
serena.sofia@unipa.it |
|
Orcid ID |
|
|
Location |
Department of Agricultural, Food, and Forest Sciences (SAAF), Viale delle Scienze, Building 4 entrance H (ground floor) |
|
Profile |
- Bachelor Degree in Agro-Engineering (class L-25) at the Università degli Studi di Palermo (Italy), 2017 - Master Degree in Forestry and Agro-Environmental Sciences and Technologies, curriculum Protection and Enhancement of the Rural Territory (class LM-73), at Università degli Studi di Palermo (Italy), 2019 |
|
Expertise |
- LIDAR data processing Laboratory - Field measurement of natural resources from innovative technologies (UAV and terrestrial LIDAR scanning) for forest planning investigations - Estimation of the dendrometric parameter of trees by data extrapolation algorithms |
|
Tutor |
Prof. Maetzke, Federico Guglielmo |
|
Co-tutor |
Prof. La Mela Veca, Donato Salvatore |
|
Thesis topics |
“Metodologie innovative di rilievo attraverso le tecnologie LIDAR scanner terrestri per la valutazione delle risorse forestali” |
|
Research interests |
- Precision Forestry - Lidar Remote Sensing - Forest Management - LIDAR data processing |
|
Link to publications (IRIS data-base) |
|
|
International Mobility |
Research internship with Universtät Hamburg, Institute of Wood Sciences, Worldforestry (Germany) |
|
Ph.D. Student |
MARIALETIZIA PONTE |
|
Photo |
 |
|
|
marialetizia.ponte@unipa.it |
|
Orcid ID |
|
|
Location |
Department of Agricultural, Food, and Forest Sciences (SAAF), Viale delle Scienze, Building 4 |
|
Profile |
- Master’s degree in Firm and Quality for the Agricultural and Food System – curriculum Management of Agri-zootechnical enterprises (LM-69), awarded in July, 2019, with a thesis entitled “Natural evolution of lactic acid bacterial populations in spontaneously fermented salami from the meat of four animal species” - Qualified as a State Board certified Agronomist and Forester in 2020; - Awarded a 3-year PhD scholarship funded by the Università degli Studi di Palermo in November 2019 |
|
Expertise |
Animal husbandry and welfare, animal nutrition, agri-zootechnical business management, agri-food quality, food microbiology |
|
Tutor |
Prof. Adriana Bonanno |
|
Co-tutor |
Prof. Antonino Di Grigoli |
|
Thesis topics |
Green and dehydrated fodder in the diet of lactating sheep: effects on the technological and functional properties of milk and cheeses (SSD AGR/19) |
|
Research interests |
Animal feeding and management factors affecting the health properties of dairy products and meat |
|
Link to publications (IRIS database) |
|
|
International Mobility |
|