Luisa Ponticelli

PhD Student

Luisa Ponticelli holds an MSc degree in Molecular Biotechnology from the University of Florence and is a PhD student in Atomic and Molecular Photonics at the European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS). Her research focuses on designing innovative nanomaterials properly functionalized for the specific targeting and real-time optical detection of highly diluted molecules (biomarkers) in the main biological fluids (e.g. blood, cerebrospinal fluid and saliva) for diagnostic purposes. Currently, her work is focused on the optimization of bioorthogonal SERS nanoprobes that target the main Alzheimer’s disease (AD) biomarkers in various sandwich immunoassay configurations.