Biography:
Francesco received his Laurea in Biological Science from the University of Milan in 1992. This was followed by post-laurea studies at the University of Georgia in the US and since 1997 is research scientist at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), in Milan, now as Senior scientist. His current research interests are in enzyme technologies, devoting particular attention to biocatalyst formulation. More recently he started to study photosynthetic microorganisms for biotransformations purposes and to produce biomass from which to extract bioactive molecules.
