Luca is a Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, where he works at developing new/improving existing processes for the bioproduction of commodity chemicals. His research focuses mostly in understanding and overcoming toxicity issues given by products and substrates, and in using synthetic biology and engineering tools to maximise production yields and titres. He has experience in metabolic engineering, microbial fermentation, process design, applied biocatalysis using whole cells and isolated enzymes, enzymology and evolution of enzymes with random and rational approaches. In his spare time, he is mostly a motorbiker, but he also does some hiking, sports and take care of his little princess Giulia! “iGEM is great...it is like doing a PhD project in three months instead of three years!”

In his spare time, he is mostly a motorbiker, but he also does some hiking, sports and take care of his little princess Giulia!

“iGEM is great...it is like doing a PhD project in three months instead of three years!”