Isabella Fiorello

Contact
Tel: +39 3319753517
E-mail: isabella.fiorello@livmats.uni-freiburg.de
URL: https://www.fiorelloresearchgroup.com

Research Topics
Bioinspired Materials, Biohybrid Materials, Microfabrication, Two-Photon Lithography, Plant Biomechanics, Environmental Conservation, Soft Robotics

Short Biography
Isabella Fiorello is a Junior Group Leader and Principal Investigator of the Bioinspired Plant-hybrid Materials group at the Cluster of Excellence Living, Adaptive and Energy-autonomous Materials Systems (livMatS) of the University of Freiburg (Germany). She received a Master’s Degree in Industrial Biotechnology (with honors) from the University of Turin (Italy) in 2017 and a PhD in Biorobotics (with honors) from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Pisa, Italy) in 2021. From 2021 to 2023, she worked as Postdoc in the Bioinspired Soft Robotics Laboratory of Italian Institute of Technology (Genoa, Italy). During her scientific career, she received prestigious grants and awards, such as Young Researcher of the Year - ENI Award 2022, Early Career National Geographic Grant and Fulbright Grant. Her research aims at the development of biologically-inspired microfabricated living materials able to precisely interact with complex unstructured surfaces for applications in precision agriculture, smart fabrics, space and soft robotics..

Publications
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