Chiara Deriu

Chiara obtained her Ph.D. in chemistry from Florida International University (FIU), Miami, USA, in 2020, where she worked on tailoring the stabilization of nanomaterials for the detection of drugs by SERS. She then received a postdoctoral appointment at FIU to work on the computational modeling of adsorbates on bimetallic clusters. Chiara joined Politecnico di Torino (Italy) in September 2021, where she is an ERC-funded postdoctoral researcher. Her scientific interests lie at the intersection of physical chemistry and the analytical sciences, with particular attention to nanoscale surface chemistry and its effects on both nanofabrication and SERS analytical performance.