Prof. Marina Cocchi

Marina Cocchi (born in Rome 1961) is full professor in Analytical Chemistry-Chemometrics, at the Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy), teaching chemometrics at undergraduate and graduate levels. She holds a degree and a Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences from the University of Modena. She has published more than 100 papers in international journals and books covering a range of topics embracing Multivariate, Multi-way and Multiset methods; Data Fusion; 2D WT in Multivariate Images Analysis for fault detection and pattern recognition; algorithms for features selection in Wavelet Domain; MSPC; Food Authenticity; Chemical fingerprinting by spectroscopy (MIR, NIR, NMR) and chromatography. She has been in the board of Italian Chemometrics Group from 2001 to 2015, acting as President in 2007-11. Since 2010 she has been member of the editorial board of Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems and member of Advisory Board of Encyclopedia Comprehensive Chemometrics 2nd E. Wiley 2018-2020. She has been Editor of the book Data Fusion: Methods and Applications, Data Handling in Science and Technology series, vol.31, Elsevier 2019. She is leader of working group: “novel mathematical algorithms and methods for processing NDSS in real time” of CA19145 – European Network for assuring food integrity using non-destructive spectral sensors (SensorFINT).


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Prof. Laura Pigani

Laura Pigani is an Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences of University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy). She graduated cum laude in Chemistry in 1998 and received a PhD degree in Chemical Sciences in 2002.
Her research work covers different aspects of electroanalysis, in particular:
• synthesis and characterization of new modified electrodes by conducting polymers and composite organic/inorganic materials;
• development of amperometric sensors for the determination of analytes of interest in real matrices;
• setup of electronic tongues for blind analysis of food samples.
She published 83 scientific papers and participated to numerous national and international research projects.


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Dr. Caterina Durante

Caterina Durante is currently a full-time researcher (art. 24 c.3-b L. 240/10) in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy (since November 2021), where she teaches instrumental analytical chemistry at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She obtained her degree in Analytical Chemistry in March 2002 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in December 2005. She has published more than 50 papers (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3955-7522) in international journals and books covering a range of topics, including the development of analytical tools for food authenticity and traceability, as well as the application of multivariate data analysis in various contexts.
Currently, Caterina collaborates with several national and international research teams, as well as different Italian food companies. From October 2012 to October 2016, she was a founding partner and CEO of ‘ChemSTAMP srl,’ a spin-off of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. The company aimed to support manufacturing companies in improving the quality of their products and production processes by reducing waste and costs.
Awards and other recognitions
-Best PhD student award, Chemical Italian Society, Emilia Romagna session, 2004
-Best innovative spin off award, sixth edition of ‘Intraprendere Modena’ (www.intraprendere.modena.it)
-Best poster Award: M. Li Vigni, M. Cocchi, C. Durante, A. Ulrici et al.
‘Wheat Flour formulation by Mixture Design and study of its properties and performance’
11th Scandinavian Symposium on Chemometrics, SSC11, 2009, Loen- Norway.
-Best Poster Award: M. Cocchi, F. Marini, C. Durante et al.
Classification Methods for Multi-Way Arrays in Food Authenticity context
13 Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry, Budapest (Hungary), 2012.
-Best Poster Award: M. Silvestri, E. Salvatore, A.Elia, C. Durante et al.
Cocchi. Data Fusion approach for the Varietal Classification of Lambrusco P.D.O. Wines
VIII Colloquium Chemiometricum Mediterraneum, Bevagna, Italy, 2013

Dr. Lorenzo Strani

Lorenzo Strani is a Post Doc researcher in Analytical Chemistry at the Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences of University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He graduated in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in January 2017, with a thesis entitled “Fusion of NIR spectra and process sensor data for the multivariate statistical process monitoring in industrial polymers production”. In November of the same year, he started a PhD in Food Systems at the Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Milan, where he investigated the use of sensing techniques (mainly MIR and NIR) for the monitoring of dairy processes. Since December 2020 he is working in the group of Prof. Marina Cocchi on different projects involving the application of chemometrics on various areas, from the monitoring of food and petrochemical industrial processes to food authentication and characterization.

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Samuele Pellacani, PhD Student

Samuele Pellacani was born in Modena in 1998. After graduating from the ‘Liceo Scientifico Alessandro Tassoni’ 2017, he pursued a higher education in chemical sciences. He earned a master’s degree with honors from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, where he developed a passion for exploring the intersection of chemistry and data analysis. Currently, he is a doctoral student at the same university, enrolled in the PhD school ‘Models and Methods for Materials and Environmental Sciences’. During his time as a researcher, he has gained experience working with various multivariate techniques, such as PARAFAC2 and PCA, to analyze complex data in the food industry. He is an active member of the chemometrics group at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

Alessandro Monari, PhD Student

Alessandro Monari (born in Reggio Emilia 1996) is a PhD student in chemistry, at the Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy). His PhD project is concerned with the development of electrochemical sensors for the analysis of complex matrices. He holds a Master’s degree in Chemical Sciences at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia where he developed a strong interest in analytical chemistry, focusing on electrochemical sensors and chemometrics. In 2022 he won the best graduation thesis award, which was established by the analytical chemistry division of the Italian chemical society.


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