Salvatore Petralia's Biography

Salvatore Petralia, Assistant professor, University of catania

Salvatore Petralia, received his PhD in Chemistry from University of Catania (Italy), in 2003. In 2020 he joined University of Catania as Researcher of Chemistry. From 2004-2020 he was Technology Development sect. Manager at STMicroelectronics, covering several R&D positions and leading multidisciplinary teams focused on the development of silicon Lab-on-Chip for nucleic acids detection. The research activity over the years has covered multidisciplinary aspects of chemistry, photochemistry, nanostructured materials, biosensing and bioMEMS silicon technology. In this field he is co-author of 128 peer reviewed scientific publications, 1 chapter of book and co-inventor of 12 patent applications.