Chiara VITALE BROVARONE

Position: Full Professor

Emal: chiara.vitalebrovarone@polito.it
Tel.: +39 0110904716

Prof. Chiara Vitale-Brovarone graduated in Materials Engineering in 1997 and took her Ph.D in Materials Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in 2001. During her Ph.D she has won fellowships for research stays at the Ecole de Chimie de Montpellier in France and at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA. She is at present Full Professor in Materials Science and Technology at the Department of Applied Science and Technology (DISAT), Politecnico di Torino where she leads the IRIS group (Improving Regeneration by Intelligent Scaffolds). She chairs the following courses: Materials Engineering (Master Science Degree in Materials Engineering) ad Materials and engineered surfaces for application in medicine (Master Science Degree in Biomedical Engineering). Her research interests are mainly related to the development of innovative biomaterials ranging from the macro to the nanoscale (3D-scaffolds, micro and nanoparticles, resorbable fibers, injectable cement and smart surfaces with osteoproductive, antibacterial and biomolecule release properties) and to  scaffold biofabrication.

She has coordinated the EU-funded projects BIORESS, MATCh which has been awarded by the Commission as Success Story and recentlythe H2020 project MOZART, she has been Team leader for the FP7-EU project RESTORATION. Currently, she is coordinating the H2020 project GIOTTO funded in the call NMBP-22-2018 with about 5,6million of € (1st January 2019 - 28th February 2023). She is the Principal Investigator of the ERC-CoG-2015 grant BOOST, (1st May 2016 – 30th June 2022) and of the GRACE project funded by the Italian Minister for Research (FARE Ricerca in Italia).

She has authored 169 papers including research articles and book chapters (H-index 39 and more than 4400 citations) mainly in the field of biomaterials, antibacterial surfaces, surface functionalization, biofabrication and tissue engineering.