Chiara Pucciariello

Biography

Since 2018, I’m Associate Professor in Plant Physiology (BIOS-02/A) at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA), Pisa, Italy.

Academic Career and Education

Assistant Professor in Plant Physiology (BIOS-02/A) at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa (Italy), 2014–2017;
Postdoctoral Fellow in Plant Physiology at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa (Italy), 2007-2014;
Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship Recipient, Project GINGER – “Glutathione and Gene Regulation” Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Sophia Agrobiotech (France), 2005-2007;
From April to August 2005, researcher at the VIB – Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Ghent (Belgium), in the Laboratory of Plant–Microbe Interaction;
Intra-European Network Fellowship, Project SOS – “Senescence and Oxidative Stress in Plant Systems” CNRS, Institut Sophia Agrobiotech (France), 2003-2004;
From May to June 2004, research at Euralis Semences, in the Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire, Toulouse (France);
PhD in Crop Production Science, Department of Cultivation and Protection of Woody Plant Species, University of Pisa (Italy), 2000-2003;
From June to September 2002, researcher at GSF–Forschungszentrum für Umwelt und Gesundheit, Munich (Germany);
Honours Degree (110/110 cum laude) in Agricultural Sciences, Department of Cultivation and Protection of Woody Plant Species, University of Pisa (Italy), 1999.

Molecular physiology of cereal crops and model plants germination in response to low oxygen.
Metagenomic and molecular physiology of plant-microbe interaction under extreme environmental conditions.
Plant cultivation in extraterrestrial environments.

Deputy Coordinator, Institute of Plant Sciences, SSSA;
Academic Representative for the Master’s Degree in Molecular Biotechnology, Joint Programme between SSSA and the University of Pisa (UNIPI);
SSSA Representative for the nanoPLANT Laboratory, National Enterprise for nanoScience and nanoTechnology (NEST), Scuola Normale Superiore;
Member of the Didactic Commission for the Class of Experimental Sciences, SSSA;
Member of the PhD Boards in Agrobiosciences and Agrobiodiversity, SSSA.

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