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Chiara Lo Porto graduated at the University of Bari with a Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry in 2012, a Master's Degree in Chemical Sciences in 2014 (grade 110/110), and a PhD in Chemical and Molecular Sciences in 2019. During her PhD, she conducted research at the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) in Dublin for four months. Her PhD dissertation, titled “Innovative plasma processes for nanocomposite materials,” received the “Sara Diomede” Award in 2019. She carried out research at the company TCT-Nanotech from 2018 to 2020. From 2020 to 2023, she worked as a fixed-term researcher (RTD) and then as a research fellow at the Institute for Chemical and Physical Processes of the National Research Council (IPCF-CNR). For her research, she won the “Young Physical Chemistry Award” from the Italian Chemical Society (2021). From 2023 to 2025, she held the position of fixed-term researcher (RTDa) at the Department of Civil, Environmental, Land, Construction, and Chemical Engineering (DICATECh) of the Polytechnic University of Bari. She has worked as a reviewer and published numerous articles in international journals. He has served as Guest Editor and Editor for several Special Issues and is currently a member of the Early Career Editorial Board of the journal Catalysts (MDPI). He is a licensed chemist (2016) and holds the National Scientific Qualification for Associate Professor in the competition class 03/A2 - Models and Methodologies for Chemical Sciences (2025). His research interests include: 

• The use of plasma chemical processes for surface treatment and deposition of nanocomposite coatings with applications in the field of biomaterials, for antibacterial surfaces or controlled drug release, and applications in the field of Plasma Agriculture.
• The production of nanofluids with high heat exchange and plant protection products.
• The synthesis and functionalization of metal oxide nanoparticles with photocatalytic activity with UV or visible light, their deposition by plasma chemical treatments on substrates, and their application for the purification of water from organic pollutants.
• The synthesis of perovskites with photocatalytic activity in the visible light range to catalyze selective oxidation processes.

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