Luca Minati
Grigno,Trento
Profilo professionale
Ricercatore motivato e versatile con esperienza nella gestione di progetti R&D in biotecnologia. Esperto in sintesi di materiali nanostrutturati e tecniche di caratterizzazione. Ottime capacità organizzative e di lavoro in team. Parlo italiano e inglese a livello B2.
Panoramica
22
22
years of professional experience
Esperienza lavorativa
R&D Senior Researcher, Project manager (permanent contract)
Immagini Biotechnology s.r.l.
Pergine
07.2017 - 01.2026
- Development of biological tools for the isolation of active native polyribosomes from cell lysate and analysis of the translatome. The work included also the synthesis and characterization of newly designed magnetic beads for application in biotechnology.
Research (fixed-term contract)
CNR-IBF
Povo
07.2015 - 07.2017
- Development of functional magnetic beads for separation of active native polyribosomes from cell lysate. The work included also the synthesis and characterization of newly designed magnetic beads for application in biotechnology. The research was done in collaboration with two local companies IMMAGINI BioTECHNOLOGY S.r.l. and Biomats.r.l.
Research (fixed-term contract)
CNR-IFN, CSMFO Lab.
Povo
12.2012 - 12.2013
- Development of meccanochromic strain sensors based on colloidal gold nanoparticles array deposited on flexible polymers.
Research (fixed-term contract)
PAM-SE group, Plasma, Advanced Materials and Surface Engineering group, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Povo
05.2004 - 09.2012
- Synthesis and characterization of gold nanoparticles for drug delivery and imaging for the tumour care (PAT-NANOSMART research project).
- Synthesis and functionalization of metallic nanoparticles for plasmonic applications; Application of metallic nanoparticles material for photonic application; development of engineered surface for SERS;
- Surface functionalization of carbon nanotubes for sensing applications NATO project network concerning XPS analysis of samples based on gold and platinum nanoparticles embedded in carbon matrix for toxic gas sensors applications;
- Development of highly efficient dye based carbon quantum dots; Manipulation and functionalization of carbon nanotubes to produce carbon quantum dots having high quantum efficiency;
- Simple-plasma and combinatorial deposition of carbon based thin films for biomedical application: (cell-adhesive/non-adhesive surfaces non-fouling surfaces, functionalized surfaces for DNA-RNA separation (MicroComb PAT project));
- The work on includes: Assembling the combinatorial plasma reactor and its automatization; Combinatorial plasma design and deposition on different kinds of substrates.
- Key scientist in the following projects:
- - Nanosmart-PAT 2008-2010 Nanoparticles Intelligent Imaging Rivelazione la Terapia dei Tumori
- - SHS-CARITRO 2009-2011 Sintesi di superfici super-idrofobiche attraverso nano-e micro-strutture per applicazioni biomedicali
- - C-PT-NAT 2007-2009 Advanced thin film nanocomposite electrodes for solid polymer electrolyt sensors
- - MicroCombi-PAT 2004-2007 Exploring New Materials by Combinatorial and Artificial Intelligence Methods
Co-relator of the Master’s Degree Thesis
Università degli studi di Trento
Trento
05.2011 - 12.2011
- I performed training to the student for the synthesis of gold nanoparticles and the investigation of their interaction with common blood proteins.
Istruzione
Ph.D. - Material Engineering
Università degli studi di Trento
Trento01.2010
Master degree - Industrial Chemistry
Università degli studi di Padova
Padova02.2004
Competenze
- Mother tongue(s): Italian
- Other language(s):
- English
- Self-assessment
- European level (
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- Understanding
- Listening: B2 Independent user
- Reading: B2 Independent user
- Spoken interaction: B2 Independent user
- Speaking
- Spoken production: B2 Independent user
- Writing: B2 Independent user
- Social skills and competences
- I enjoy working in teams but I can also carry out my research independently (projects, teaching supervision of laboratory activities and research)
- Organisational skills and competences
- As R&D Project manager of Immagini Biotechnology I am able to fully manage my and collaborators research, in terms of experimental work, characterization, data analysis and publication
- Technical skills and competences
- Expert in synthesis of nanostructured material and characterization techniques
- General skills in biotechnology and molecular biology
- General skills in organic chemistry
- I am expert in the design of the experiments, the acquisition of data and their analysis using the following techniques:
- X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
- Dynamic light scattering, ζ-potential analysis
- Absorption measurements in the UV-VIS-NIR region
- Confocal microscopy
- Photoluminescence spectroscopy
- HPLC
- I am autonomous in the analysis of data for the following techniques:
- Transmission and scanning electron microscopy
- X-ray diffraction
- Thermogravimetric and differential scanning calorimetric analysis
- Specific in-depth experience in biotechnology and molecular biology including in vivo and in vitro models, preparation of cells, gel electrophoresis, RNA and protein extraction and purification, western blot, immunoprecipitation, magnetic beads design, production and use and library preparation
- Computer skills and competences
- Operating Systems: Unix, Windows
- Applications: Microsoft Office Suite, Openoffice, Latex, Chrome, Firefox
- Analysis software: Origin 75, Origin 8, Unifi 2006, Image-J, MacBiophotonic image-J, X-Genplot, COMSOL multiphysics Fd module, Pymol, Blender, Process Diffraction
- Programming languages: Matlab and GNU-Octave frameworks
- Other skills and competences
- I am creative, highly motivated and versatile researcher that allows me to handle different research topic with different research teams
- Referee of the following international journals:
- Journal of Non Crystalline Solids
- Surface and Interface Analysis
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry
- Applied Surface Science
- Journal of Material Science
- Material Science and Engineering B
- Driving licence
- 1999 Italian driving license B
Additional information
Giorgio, Speranza, speranza@fbk.eu, +390461314487, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento
Awards
L. Minati, M. Gentili, V. Antonini, M. Dalla Serra, L. Dalbosco, G. Migliaresi, G. Speranza in vitro investigation of doxorubicin release from gold nanoparticles coated by polyelectrolyte multilayers Nanotechnol. 2012 12 November 21-23 2012 Hotel Laguna Palace, Venezia Mestre Best poster contribution at the health care session, Veneto Nanotech Prize in Memory of Giovanni Badini, S. Torrengo, A. Miotello, G. Speranza, L. Minati, M. Ferrari, A. Chiasera, A. Pasquarelli, M. Dipalo, E. Kohn XPS study of in situ one step amination of hydrogenated diamond surface 20th European Conference on Diamond, Diamond-Like Materials, Carbon Nanotubes, and Nitrides 6-10 September 2009, Athens, Greece) Best Poster Presentation Award 2009
Costume Section
Research and Development
Contact
Nazionalità: Italian
Lingue
Inglese
Intermedio
B1
Cronologia
R&D Senior Researcher, Project manager (permanent contract)
Immagini Biotechnology s.r.l.
07.2017 - 01.2026
Research (fixed-term contract)
CNR-IBF
07.2015 - 07.2017
Research (fixed-term contract)
CNR-IFN, CSMFO Lab.
12.2012 - 12.2013
Co-relator of the Master’s Degree Thesis
Università degli studi di Trento
05.2011 - 12.2011
Research (fixed-term contract)
PAM-SE group, Plasma, Advanced Materials and Surface Engineering group, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
05.2004 - 09.2012
Master degree - Industrial Chemistry
Università degli studi di Padova
Ph.D. - Material Engineering
Università degli studi di Trento