Evolutionary and Functional Biology Unit
Coordinator: Prof. Andrea Sgoifo
Email: andrea.sgoifo@unipr.it
Evolutionary biology and biodiversity: Population evolution, animal genomics and conservation of biological diversity.
Animal behaviour: Ethology, ecology and sociobiology of insects, dog ethology
Biomedical physiology: Stress physiology, brain-heart axis, cardiac pathophysiology, cellular and computational electrophysiology
Plant development and evolution, biotic interactions and responses to environmental stimuli.
Biotechnology, Ecology and Sustainability Unit
Coordinator: Prof. Elena Maestri
Email: elena.maestri@unipr.it
Ecosystem ecology: Aquatic ecology, geobotany, and plant and animal ecology.
Environmental biotechnology: Biological approaches to environmental investigation and protection.
Environmental sustainability: Biodiversity, climate and environmental change, environmental economics, and assessment of environmental impacts and risks.
Biotechnological and ecological research for sustainable transitions in agroecosystems and urban systems.
Common research theme of the Unit: research in the biotechnological and ecological fields for sustainable transitions in agroecosystems and urban systems.
Analytical Chemistry, Cultural Heritage, Inorganic Chemistry and Crystallography Unit
Coordinator: Prof. Corrado Rizzoli
Email: corrado.rizzoli@unipr.it
Analytical chemistry: Chromatography, mass spectrometry, sensors and biosensors; methods for food quality and safety and environmental analysis.
Inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry: Metal-based systems of biological interest, including enzyme models, compounds for diagnostic and therapeutic applications (antibacterial, anticancer, antiviral, and antifungal agents), and inorganic and nanostructured materials.
Crystallography and crystal engineering: Structural determination and design of crystalline solids and materials.
Cultural heritage: Chemical and structural characterisation of cultural heritage materials and archaeological artefacts.
Organic, Physical and Industrial Chemistry Unit
Coordinator: Prof. Francesca Terenziani
Email: francesca.terenziani@unipr.it
Organic synthesis and bioorganic chemistry: New synthetic methodologies, functional molecules and artificial nucleic acids.
Supramolecular chemistry and nanotechnology: Molecular recognition, self-assembly and supramolecular systems.
Functional materials: Molecular, dynamic and organic materials; packaging materials; spectroscopy and modelling of material properties.
Sustainable chemistry: Environmentally sustainable catalysis, green chemistry and sustainable process development.
Biomolecular, Genomic and Biocomputational Sciences Unit
Coordinator: Prof. Enrico Baruffini
Email: enrico.baruffini@unipr.it
Biochemistry and molecular biology: Structure, function and regulation of biological systems at the molecular level.
Genetics and genomics: Genome organization, expression, regulation and mutation; genome editing; epigenomics; evolutionary genomics and biodemography.
Microbiology and biotechnology: Microorganisms and their biotechnological applications.
Computational and omics approaches: Bioinformatics, biocomputation, proteomics and metabolomics.
Earth Sciences Unit
Coordinator: Prof. Alessandro Chelli
Email: alessandro.chelli@unipr.it
Sedimentary geology: Basin analysis, evolution of depositional systems, siliciclastic and carbonate sedimentology, evaporite geology, geological storage.
Palaeontology: Fossils and reconstruction of biological evolution, dating of sedimentary successions, reconstruction of past environments and climate.
Structural geology and tectonics: Crustal deformation and dynamics of geological systems.
Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology: hydrogeology, groundwater flow and recharge, groundwater protection, soil mechanics, rock mechanics, slope stability, geotechnical engineering, numerical modeling, contaminant transport, groundwater pollution remediation.
Geomorphology and Applied Geophysics: geomorphological mapping, slope dynamics, geohazards, climate change, landslides, numerical modeling, petrophysical joint inversion, pedogenesis and paleosols characterization, dendrogeomorphology, stable isotope dendrochronology, critical zone dynamics.
Mineralogy petrology and geochemistry: study of minerals and mineral deposits, rocks, magmas, fluids and their interactions, geochemical processes, stable isotope geochemistry and its applications to archaeology, water resources, food authenticity and traceability, environmental studies and geomaterials.
Earth Physics: Dynamics of tectonic plate motions, Earth’s mantle dynamics, seismic cycle and hazard along tectonic margins.
