NERI Giulia

Giulia Neri graduated in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology from the University of Messina in 2013 with highest honors (110/110 cum laude). In 2017, she obtained her PhD in Chemical Sciences from the same University. During her doctoral studies (2015–2016), she was a PhD visiting researcher at the National Physical Laboratory (London, UK), where she further developed her expertise in the characterization of biomaterials.
From 2017 to 2019, she held postdoctoral research fellowships at the Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta” at Politecnico di Milano, where she conducted research on functional materials for theranostic applications.
From 2019 to 2022, she served as Assistant Professor (RTD-A) at the Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences of the University of Messina. At the same Department, she subsequently held the position of Assistant Professor (RTD-B) from 2022 to 2025. Since December 2025, she has been Associate Professor in the scientific disciplinary sector CHEM-05/A at the same Department.
Her research activity focuses on the development and characterization of nanostructured systems for biomedical, environmental, and sensing applications. In particular, her work involves the design of multifunctional platforms based on different nanomaterials, including polymers, carbon-based nanomaterials, cyclodextrins, and metallic nanoparticles, aimed at the development of devices for drug and gene delivery, biosensing, and photothermal therapy.
In recent years, her research has expanded to include the development of systems for the selective detection of water contaminants and advanced sorbent materials for the selective capture of CO₂ from gas mixtures such as syngas, flue gas, and biogas.
She is the author of more than 40 publications in journals indexed in Scopus and Web of Science, one patent, and several contributions presented at national and international conferences.