Family name, First name: Giglio, Valentina
Valentina Giglio earned her degree in Biomolecular Chemistry cum laude from the University of Catania in 2012. In 2016, she obtained an International PhD in Translational Biomedicine at the same university, focusing her research activity on the synthesis and characterization of cyclodextrin-based polymeric derivatives as drug delivery systems. During her PhD, she spent a period as visiting PhD student at the Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires of the University of Strasbourg, working on the synthesis and functionalization of mesoporous silica nanoparticles for drug delivery.
At the end of her PhD, she obtained a post-doctoral fellowship at the same French research institute to continue her studies on nanoparticle functionalization. In 2017, she returned to Italy as research fellow until 2021 at the Organic Mass Spectrometry Laboratory of the Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Catania, where she acquired advanced expertise in mass spectrometry for both proteomic studies and the determination of small molecules in biological matrices.
From 2021 to 2023, she worked as researcher in the Innovative Development Department at Fidia Farmaceutici, focusing on the development of new drugs based on natural polymers. From 2023 to 2025, she was a fixed-term researcher at ICB-CNR in Catania, where she worked on the synthesis and characterization of macroporous polymeric materials based on calixarene macrocycles for the removal of pollutants from wastewater and air.
Since September 2025, she has been a fixed-term researcher at IPCB-CNR in Catania, where she is involved in the analytical determination of environmental pollutants released from polymeric materials using mass spectrometry techniques.