Working Experience
2013/Present  Iskra9 SA, Business start-up, In partnership with two friends of mine, I started a new company, active in the building sector. I provide pre and post sales customer service to our clients and generate new sales and business opportunities. I am also responsible for keeping financial accounts of new and existing customers.
2007/2013 Emanuele Centonze SA, Balerna, Switzerland. REACH Implementation Manager, responsible for the implementation of the new European Union's Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) Regulation for the company’s products. My main duties within the company were:
1) Inventory of all the company’s chemical substances subject to REACH regulation.
2) Maintaining and establishing good relations with suppliers and clients in order to exchange information.
3) Collection and evaluation of the necessary information to pre-register the substances.
4) Taking part in pre-consortia and consortia meetings in order to prepare the full registration dossiers.
5) Assessing the economic impact of REACH for the company and selection of critical substances.
6) Responsible for the technical and commercial aspects of the hazardous waste disposal business.
7) Responsible for the redaction of MSDSs (Material Safety Data Sheets) and TDSs.



2007       Marie Curie “Transfer of Knowledge” Fellowships, Bucharest, ‘Polytechnics’
               - Romania.  Full time lecturer to Ph.D. and M.Sc. students on electron (SEM and TEM) and Optical microscopy techniques.
                      
2007    Marie Curie “Transfer of Knowledge” Fellowships, Zabrze, ‘Polish Academy of                                                        Science’- Poland. Synthesis and characterization (GPC, FT-IR, NMR) of biodegradable polyesters. Part-time lecturer to undergraduate and graduate students on antimony and titanium alkoxides chemistry and structural characterization.
    
2006            Reasearcher, University College of Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland.
                         Carrying out experimental and theoretical research on how point mutations in
              enzymes can affect their catalytic activity.

2002/2007    Ph.D. Inorganic Chemistry, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon  Tyne, UK. Synthesis (Schlenk techniques), characterization (NMR, FT-IR, UV, X-Ray) and reactivity studies of antimony alkoxide compounds. Synthesis and characterization (SEM, TEM, XRD) of metal antimony nanoparticles. Laboratory demonstrator and part-time lecturer to undergraduate and graduate students in: Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, Advanced Physical Chemistry, Molecular Modeling and General Chemistry.
2003          During Ph.D. studies Marie Curie Fellowships 'University of Zaragoza' - Spain.        Calculation of antimony alkoxides geometric and spectroscopic properties with       Gaussian 98 software package.        
    2000/2001     Sales Representative for Menarini Group, Promotion of new and existing medicines towards the medical class, both GP’s and Specialists.
1999/2000          Lieutenant in the Corp of Engineers, Italian Army. Turin - Italy.

    Skills

Teaching                                           Excellent skills in teaching and supervising students

Time management             Good organisation, respecting tight deadlines

Oral communication        Giving and attending seminars and conferences

Bibliographic activity        Reviewing scientific literature and creating bibliographic libraries

Interpersonal communication    Excellent skills in communication and collaboration

Analysis and synthesis skills     Original analytical thinking, multi-task abilities.

Other Skills                 Innovative at problem solving and conceptualization.
                    Autonomy, working independently and as part of a team.

    
Languages and Information Technology
Languages    Italian: Mother tongue;  English and Spanish: Fluent
IT        Proficient in the use of the Internet and Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel and Power Point). Experience of programming in Python and Fortan77 in UNIX and VMS operating systems.

    Education
2007    Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry – University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
1999        Master of Science in Chemistry University of Rome “La Sapienza”.