Lucia Sarcina

Lucia Sarcina received the master’s degree (110/110) in material science and technology from the University of Bari, Bari, Italy, in 2018, within a Global Thesis Study Award at the University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain. She is currently a Research Fellow with the University of Bari. She is the coauthor of 14 publication on international journals, 7 of which as the first author; and she has 18 international conferences contributions. From 2018 to 2021, she finalized in Bari an industrial Ph.D. project in Chemical and Molecular Sciences, focused on the study of a standalone and disposable bioelectronic HIV sensor for point-of-care applications. She has expertise in the characterization of modified gold surfaces, used as transducing systems for the biorecognition of clinically relevant pathogens.