Maria Teresa Giardi
Biosensor Srl, Italy
Biography
Maria Teresa Giardi manager of research at the National Council of Research (IC-CNR) in Rome till 2015. She is now associated to CNR, working at the company Biosensor srl as research director and CEO. Her background is in industrial chemistry with extensive experience in biochemistry and molecular biology; her main interest is on photosynthetic protein stabilization and utilization in biosensors for real toxicity environmental monitoring. She is a supervisor-coordinator of several national and international projects in the field of biosensors based on plants and microorganisms and of European Space Agency’s projects involving space flights of engineered microorganisms to low orbit and to International Space