{"id":3024,"date":"2023-02-23T15:03:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T14:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/?p=3024"},"modified":"2023-02-23T15:07:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T14:07:03","slug":"phd-student-profile-alice-melzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/2023\/02\/23\/phd-student-profile-alice-melzi\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD student profile, Alice Melzi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p><strong>PhD Student<\/strong>: Alice Melzi (ORCID n. <a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0990-4247\" target=\"_blank\">0000-0002-0990-4247<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3025\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Fototessera-Alice-Melzi_200x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Fototessera-Alice-Melzi_200x200.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Fototessera-Alice-Melzi_200x200-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Supervisor<\/strong>: Prof. Lucia Cavalca, DeFENS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Co-tutor<\/strong>: Prof. Stefania Arioli, DeFENS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dean<\/strong>: Prof. Diego Mora<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research area<\/strong>: Agri-Environment<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research topic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contribution of environmental, food and gut microorganisms to heavy metal recovery and sequestration.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Synopsis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The project is aimed at exploiting microbial biosorption for removing heavy metals from contaminated environments. In particular, the recovery of heavy metals will be studied in extracellular polymeric substances producing bacteria: this is an eco-friendly biotechnology that converts a waste product into a valuable one, because the metal-organic complexes can be exploited as biocatalysts or as high commercial value salts. This process has a lower water footprint and fits in the concept of circular economy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project keywords<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bioremediation, environmental biotechnology, metals, circular economy<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3027\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Heavy-metal-biosorpion-by-h-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Heavy-metal-biosorpion-by-h-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Heavy-metal-biosorpion-by-h-768x443.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Heavy-metal-biosorpion-by-h.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contacts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DEFENS- Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences<\/p>\n<p>Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Milano<\/p>\n<p>Via Mangiagalli, 25, Milano (MI), 20133<\/p>\n<p><em>email<\/em>: alice.melzi@unimi.it<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Collaborations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prof.ssa Alessandra Adessi<\/p>\n<p>Institution: Universit\u00e0 degli studi di Firenze<\/p>\n<p>Affiliation: Agricolture food environment and forest (DAGRI)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prof.ssa Isabella Rimoldi<\/p>\n<p>Institution: Universit\u00e0 degli studi di Milano<\/p>\n<p>Affiliation: Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences (DISFARM)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prof.ssa Jhuma Sadhukhan<\/p>\n<p>Institution: University of Surrey (UK)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sponsor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Fellowship sponsor<\/em>: Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Milano<\/p>\n<p><em>Project sponsor<\/em>: Fondazione Cariplo, project 2020-1069<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Others<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Memberships:<\/p>\n<p>CINECA (since 2022)<\/p>\n<p>Linkedin: http:\/\/linkedin.com\/in\/alice-melzi-082a0b21a<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhD Student: Alice Melzi (ORCID n. 0000-0002-0990-4247) &nbsp; Supervisor: Prof. Lucia Cavalca, DeFENS Co-tutor: Prof. Stefania Arioli, DeFENS Dean: Prof. Diego Mora Research area: Agri-Environment &nbsp; Research topic Contribution of environmental, food and gut microorganisms to heavy metal recovery and sequestration. &nbsp; Project Synopsis The project is aimed at exploiting microbial biosorption for removing heavy &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93,59],"tags":[156,248,139,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-3024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-phd-student-profile","9":"tag-bioremediation","10":"tag-circular-economy","11":"tag-environmental-biotechnology","12":"tag-metals","13":"anons"},"modified_by":"admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3029,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions\/3029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}