Pietro Benettoni

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Phone +49 (0) 341 235 1409

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstrasse 15
04318 Leipzig

Curriculum Vitae

Since 10/2017	PhD Student Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research, Leipzig Department Isobiogeochemistry, ProVIS PhD Project: Nanoparticles characterization in complex media
12/2016-09/2017	Postgraduate Researcher University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Project: Photodynamic therapy on cancer cells with gold nanoparticles
10/2015-10/2016	Research Internship Philipps Universität, Faculty of Physics, Marburg, Germany Title of the project: Nanoparticles interaction with biological media
10/2014-11/2016	M. Sc. in Industrial Biotechnology University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Title of dissertation: Exploring nanoparticles degradation in biological media
10/2011-10/2014	B.Sc. in Biotechnology University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Title of dissertation: Tumor targeting of mesoporous silica nanoparticles

Research Topic

Nanoparticles characterization in complex matrices.

Main Objectives: Evaluate and optimize sample preparation methods of Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy (ToF-SIMS) for chemical imaging in order to characterize nanoparticles in complex matrices such as biological media under close to real life conditions.

My research is founded by ACEnano (analytical and characterization excellence) project under European Union Horizon 2020 (H2020) programme.

http://www.acenano-project.eu/about-acenano

Publications

Benettoni, P., Stryhanyuk, H., Wagner, S., Kollmer, F., Moreno Osorio, J.H., Schmidt, M., Reemtsma, T., Richnow, H.-H. (2019):
Identification of nanoparticles and their localization in algal biofilm by 3D-imaging secondary ion mass spectrometry
J. Anal. At. Spectrom. 34 (6), 1098 - 1108 10.1039/c8ja00439k
Benettoni, P., Ye, J.-Y., Holbrook, T.R., Calabrese, F., Wagner, S., Zarejousheghani, M., Griebel, J., Ullrich, M.K., Musat, N., Schmidt, M., Flyunt, R., Reemtsma, T., Richnow, H.-H., Stryhanyuk, H. (2020):
Surface cleaning and sample carrier for complementary high-resolution imaging techniques
Biointerphases 15 (2), art. 021005 10.1116/1.5143203
Decelle, J., Veronesi, G., Gallet, B., Stryhanyuk, H., Benettoni, P., Schmidt, M., Tucoulou, R., Passarelli, M., Bohic, S., Clode, P., Musat, N. (2020):
Subcellular chemical imaging: New avenues in cell biology
Trends Cell Biol. 30 (3), 173 - 188 10.1016/j.tcb.2019.12.007
Giannopoulos, K., Benettoni, P., Holbrook, T.R., Reemtsma, T., Wagner, S., Lechtenfeld, O.J. (2021):
Direct analysis of fulvic acids adsorbed onto capped gold nanoparticles by laser desorption ionization Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry
Environ. Sci.-Nano 8 (8), 2336 - 2346 10.1039/d0en01253j
Moreno Osorio, J.H., Benettoni, P., Schmidt, M., Stryhanyuk, H., Schmitt-Jansen, M., Pinto, G., Pollio, A., Frunzo, L., Lens, P.N.L., Richnow, H.H., Esposito, G., Musat, N. (2019):
Investigation of architecture development and phosphate distribution in Chlorella biofilm by complementary microscopy techniques
FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 95 (4), fiz029 10.1093/femsec/fiz029