Federica Sebastiani is new Tenure Track Assistant Professor
At Department of Pharmacy, Federica Sebastiani has recently become tenure track assistant professor in Professor Camilla Foged’s group, Vaccine Design and Delivery.
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Federica Sebastiani describes her focus as a researcher and her main tasks be in the Vaccine Design and Delivery group:
“The main theme of my research work is understanding the relationship between structure and function of bio-colloids and biomimetic systems. I have expertise in scattering methods (light, x-rays and neutrons) and in surface characterization techniques (ellipsometry, QCM-D, ATR-FTIR).
In the last few years, I have been investigating how the structure of Lipid Nanoparticles (LNPs) for mRNA delivery and their
interaction with serum proteins impact mRNA-LNP efficacy. As a member of the Vaccine Design and Delivery group, I will investigate the structure of mRNA delivery systems by means of scattering techniques.
Considering the interdisciplinary environment in the group and at the Department of Pharmacy, I aim to combine the structural characterization with the biological function of mRNA delivery systems in order to deepen the understanding of the structure-function relationship, which will allow to ultimately control their function.
In parallel, I would like to increase the complexity of the conditions used to study the structure of delivery systems, for example looking at the structure in presence of proteins and/or under flow.”
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Research project in collaboration with industry at Malmö University, Dept. of Biomedical Science.
Postdoc at CR Competence AB (Lund, Sweden) within a MSCA Initial Training Network (BIBAFOODS) in 2015.
PhD in Chemistry from the University of Reading, UK in 2014. Thesis: “Neutron Reflectometry and ellipsometry applied to atmospheric night-time oxidation”.
Master in Physics with specialization in Biophysics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy.