Advisor of MAGFI ltd: , company based in Zurrieq [Republic of Malta].MAGFI offers MONEY and PEOPLE Solutions for your sustainable business, via:A) Business Development, Private Investments, Public Fundraising;B) Trainings, Interim Management, (in/out) SourcingMy activities in the company are mainly dealing with:- "Business Development": services of Marketing Intelligence and Benchmarking- Activities concerning the services offered by the company as “Fundraising”

Research activity: valorization and characterization of lignocellulosic fractions from agro-industrial waste for the production of nano-pesticides.NEMESI project (green chemical nanotechnologies for sustainable plant protection) financed by MIIUR (National Plan of Research, PNR - Green Chemistry).

Study of bio-based and green technologies for the saccharification of lignocellulosic biomass to fermentable sugars for bio-chemicals and biofuels production. Research activity in the enzymatic hydrolysis section: “Development of innovative methods for the evaluation of enzymatic cocktails effectiveness in polysaccharides hydrolysis”.

Curricular traineeship within the Erasmus + project.Research activity in the Fungal Genetic and Biotechnology group on the vanillin metabolism inthe basidiomycete Dichomitus squalens.- Fungal cultivation- Basic laboratory work- Bioinformatics (gene mining, phylogenetic trees)- Molecular biology techniques (PCR, RT-PCR) and cloning- Metabolites analysis (UHPLC, GC-MS).

Part-time collaboration grant for students. Librarian assistant during the evening hours of the university library.

Curricular traineeship.Research activity in Microbiology laboratory.Techniques of classical and molecular microbiology:- Preparation of growth media- Isolation of bacterial colonies- Transformation techniques- Gene amplification techniques (PCR)- Plasmid DNA purification techniques.