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. 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 Full Professor in Materials Science and Technology at the Department of Applied Science and Technology (DISAT) Politecnico di Torino since 2017, 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, smart micro and nanoparticles, nanofibrous structures, injectable cement and smart surfaces with osteoproductive, antibacterial, antifouling and biomolecule release properties). 

She has coordinated the EU-funded projects: 

  • BIORESS (FP7),  
  • MATCh (FP7) which has been awarded by the Commission as Success Story,  
  • MOZART (H2020) 
  • GIOTTO (H2020),  
  • BOOST (ERC- Consolidator, PI) 
  • and she has been WP leader for the project RESTORATION (FP7).  

Currently, she is coordinating the Horizon Europe project REBORN funded in the call HORIZON-CL4-2022 RESILIENCE-01-13 (1st January 2023 – 31st  February 2026) and she is the PI at Politecnico di Torino of the Horizon Europe project TENTACLE funded in HORIZON-HEALTH-2024-TOOL-11-02. 

She has authored 200 papers including research articles and book chapters (H-index 50 and about 7500 citations) mainly in the field of biomaterials, antibacterial surfaces, surface functionalization, biofabrication and tissue engineering.