Rosarita D'Orsi

Rosarita D’Orsi is a post-doc researcher in Organic Chemistry since July 2021 at the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry of the University of Pisa. She received her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2020 from the University of Salerno, under the supervision of Prof. Maria Funicello. In 2018 she spent some months as visiting fellow at the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry of the University of Wien, working on highly chemoselective difluoromethylative homologation of iso(thio)cyanates, under the supervision of Prof. Wolfgang Holzer and Prof. Vittorio Pace. In 2020/2021 she was a post-doc researcher in Organic Chemistry at the Department of Sciences of the University of Basilicata, where she worked on the synthesis of new potential HIV Protease inhibitors and SAR studies for drug delivery with microparticles. Her research interests were focused on synthesis, characterization and application of derivatives of trans 2,3-diaryl-2,3-dihydrobenzofurans and differently substituted benzofurans and on the synthesis of antiviral and anticancer compounds. Presently, she works on the chemical and structural characterization of lignin residues and their chemical functionalization towards novel applications in the field of advanced materials. She is interested in the study of biomacromolecules, functionalization of nanocrystalline cellulose, and extraction and molecular characterization of lignin for the application of these biopolymers in materials science.