Colloquium Series in Analytical Chemistry and Water Chemistry
Wintersemester 2023/24



Invitation to the TUM IWC Lecture




Affinity sensing: trends and challenges



Prof. Maria Emanuela Minunni
Chair of Analytical Chemistry, Dipartimento di Farmacia, Università degli Studi di Pisa

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Thursday, 25th of January 2024, at 10:00 h
Building CH-6 Seminar room 36220, Department of Chemistry, Lichtenbergstrasse 4, 85748 Garching


Topic: TUM IWC colloquium WiSe 2023/24

Zoom Meeting
https://tum-conf.zoom-x.de/j/63478100561?pwd=UGFzR2hMNlEwaHVwOG1ZblhsWmdtZz09

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Colloquium Series in Analytical Chemistry and Water Chemistry
Wintersemester 2023/24


Affinity sensing: trends and challenges

Prof. Maria Emanuela Minunni
Chair of Analytical Chemistry, Dipartimento di Farmacia, Università degli Studi di Pisa


About Prof. Maria Emanuela Minunni:

Full professor in Analytical Chemistry, since 2017. She received the BSc in Biology from the University of Pisa and the PhD in Environmental Science from the University of Florence, Italy, Department of Chemistry. She spent a few years abroad, working at Nestlé Research Centre (Lausanne-CH) in the genetic toxicology section, then at Pharmacia Biosensor AB (Uppsala–SE), at Biacore™ instrumentation based on Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR); at the Technical University of Munich -TUM (DE), Institute of Life Sciences with Prof. B. Hock, working on SPR and recombinant antibodies screening technologies, at University College UCC-Cork (IE) Dep. of Chemistry with Prof. G. G. Guilbault on piezoelectric sensing. She returned to Florence working at the Department of Pharmaceutical Science and, since1999, at Department of Chemistry. Her activity has been mainly focused on the development of bioanalytical assays, mainly on sensor and biosensing based approaches. In 2000 she was tenured at Firenze University. In 2011 she was appointed Associate Professor and in 2017 Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry.
In October 2023 she moved to Pisa University, at the Department of Pharmacy.
She supervised 23 MSc and 7 PhD theses. Most of her former students are now developing their academic careers in Italy and abroad. Since 2018 she’s been member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Talanta, Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research (SBSR) and Associate Editor of Sensors and Actuators Reports, Elsevier. In 2019 she acted as Guest Editor for Analytical Bioanalytical Chemistry (ABC), Springer, Issue New Developments in Biosensors; Since 2017 she is in the International Advisory board of the European Biosensor Symposium (ESB), chairing the 2nd EBS in Florence (2019). Referee and Evaluator for Grant Programs for National and International funding Agency and Organization; She has co-authored over 155 papers and review articles in international journals, and several book chapters. She’s organized several international conferences on sensor and biosensors; She has been coordinator or principal investigator of many international and national projects in the field of biosensors. She is mainly interested in bioanalysis, in particular in: 1) affinity sensing, biomimetic receptors (aptamers, molecular imprinted polymers), coupled to piezoelectrical and optical, in particular Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) sensing and 2) in the development of innovative disposable analytical platforms for simple, low cost, rapid quantitative analysis using spectroscopic approaches (molecular spectroscopy in absorption and emission).