27th European Nutrition and Dietetics Conference
Berlin, Germany
Gaia Rocchitta
Sassari University, Italy
Biography
Gaia Rocchitta has completed her graduation in chemistry in 1999 with a thesis about polyphenols in red wines, then she completed her PhD in Neuroscience at School of Medicine of Sassari University (Italy) in 2004. She was a Postdoctoral fellow at School of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University College, Dublin (Ireland) in 2006, working on the development of amperometric biosensors for in vivo monitoring of neuro chemical compounds. She currently is a tenured researcher and lecturer in Pharmacology and Nutraceutical at School of Medicine of Sassari University (Italy). Dr Rocchitta has been a tutor for numerous PhD projects mainly focused on the development of analytical devices for the monitoring of neuro chemicals in vivo, but also of nutraceuticals in agrifood matrices. Moreover, she has published about 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals of international relevance.