Maria Mazzucotelli

Biography

Maria graduated in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technologies at the University of Turin in 2017, the aim of this thesis is to present a new experimental work on the characterization of primary metabolites in hazelnuts using GC-MS and GCxGC-ToF-MS techniques. Subsequently, from February 2018 to April 2019, she worked as a fellow in the laboratory of Food Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Biology at the Department of Science and Technology of Drugs of the same university with a project on Characterisation of innovative stationary phases based on ionic liquids and their application in flavour sectors; fragrance, food and essential oils. 

From April 2019 to September 2019, Maria worked as a laboratory technician in the Sensory Quality group, dealing with GC-MS data processing. Subsequently, from October 2019 to October 2021, she held the role of Product Specialist GC at Thermo Fischer Scientific. From November 2021, Maria is a PhD student in "Agri-food and environmental sciences" at the University of Trento, with an operational headquarters at the Edmund Mach Foundation (FEM). 

Research activities

Application of rapid analytical techniques (PTR-MS and GC-IMS) for characterisation of the hazelnut volatiloma.