Valentina Cauda
Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
Biography
Valentina Cauda pursued her PhD in Material Science and Technology (2008) from Polytechnic University of Torino, Italy. She is graduated in Chemical Engineering (2004). She is currently an Associate Professor at the Polytechnic University of Torino. In 2006, she was a visiting PhD student at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). From 2008 to 2010, she worked as Postdoc at the University of Munich (Germany). From 2010 to 2015 she was a Senior Postdoc at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italy). For her research work she received several prizes: Young Researchers at the University of Munich (2010); the Italian “Giovedì Scienza” award (2013); Zonta Prize for Chemistry (2015) and the USERN Prize for Biological Sciences (2017) respectively. In 2016 she was awarded by the European Research Council with an ERC Starting Grant. She is the author of 84 papers in peer-reviewed international journals with H-index of 28