Personal information:
Date and place of birth: Rome March 9th 1977
University address: Dept. of Chemistry, University of Rome “La Sapienza”,
P.le Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy
Tel: +39 06 4991 3680
Fax: +39 06 4969 3292
e-mail: federico.marini@uniroma1.it
Education:
1995: High school diploma at Liceo Classico Terenzio Mamiani in Rome (mark: 60/60)
2000: Laurea (equivalent to MSc degree) in Chemistry at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (mark 110/110 cum laude). Title of the thesis: “Analytical characterization of mono-cultivar extra virgin olive oils and their discrimination by means of multivariate statistical analysis and artificial neural networks”.
2004: PhD in Chemical Sciences at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Title of the thesis: “A chemometric approach to the evaluation of the quality of foodstuff”.
2004-2008: Post-doc in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Title of the project: “Multivariate analysis of quality”.
2008-2018: Researcher in Analytical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
2013: National habilitation as Associate Professor
2014: National habilitation as Full Professor (renewed in 2018)
2018-present: Associate Professor in Analytical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
Visits and stays:
1997: Short stay at the Chemical Laboratories of B.A.S.F. (Ludwigshafen, Germany) for a training stage (2 weeks).
2003: Visiting researcher at the National Institute of Chemistry (Ljubljana, Slovenia) to cooperate with prof. Jure Zupan (1 month).
2003: Marie Curie Fellow at the National Institute of Chemistry (Ljubljana, Slovenia). Title of the project: “Chemometric treatment of endocrine disrupter compounds”, responsible: dr. Mariana Novič (3 months).
2007: Visiting researcher at the Faculty of Life Science of the University of Copenhagen to cooperate with prof. Rasmus Bro (3 weeks).
2008: Visiting researcher at the Faculty of Life Science of the University of Copenhagen to cooperate with prof. Rasmus Bro (5 months).
2009-2010: Visiting researcher at the Faculty of Life Science of the University of Copenhagen to cooperate with prof. Rasmus Bro (2 months).
2014: Visiting professor at the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa, 2 weeks).
2015: Visiting professor at the University of Silesia (Poland, 2 weeks).
2015: Visiting researcher at Nofima (Ås, Norway, 1 month)
2016: Visiting professor at the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa, 2 weeks).
Visiting professor at the University of Lille (France, 2 weeks).
Visiting professor at the University of Silesia (Katowice, Poland, 1 week).
2017-present: Extraordinary professor at the University of Stellenbosch (3 years appointment)
2018: Visiting professor at Irstea (Montpellier, France, 4 months).
Visiting professor at the University of Silesia (Katowice, Poland, 2 weeks).
2019: Visiting professor at the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa, 2 weeks).
Visiting professor at the Hanoi University Pharmacy (Vietnam, 1 week).
2020: Visiting professor at the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa, 2 weeks).
Teaching activity:
2003-2004: Professor of Computational Chemistry I (Chemometrics) at the University of L’Aquila (Degree Courses in Chemistry and Environmental Sciences).
2004-2007: Professor of Chemometrics at the University of L’Aquila (Degree Course in Chemistry).
2006-2008: Professor of Complements of Analytical Chemistry at the University of L’Aquila (Degree Course in Chemistry).
2006-present: Teacher of the module “Artificial Neural Networks for data analysis” at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (PhD Course in Multiscale modelling, computational simulations and characterization in Material and Life Sciences).
2008-2010: Professor of Water Chemistry at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Degree Course in Chemistry).
2008-present: Professor of Chemometrics at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Degree Course in Chemistry).
2009-2012: Professor of Elements of chemometrics with MATLAB at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (PhD Course in Sciences for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage).
2010-present: Teacher of the module “Chemometrics” for the PhD school in Analytical Chemistry organized by the Analytical Division of the Italian Chemical Society.
2012-2013: Teacher of the module “Advanced classification methods” for the Copenhagen School of Chemometrics (University of Copenhagen, Denmark).
2013: Coordinator and Teacher of the module “Classification and regression” for the 1st school on multi-way, multi-set and multi-block methods, organized in Rome (Italy).
2014-present: Professor of Advanced Chemometrics with Matlab for the PhD course in Chemical Sciences at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Degree Course in Chemistry).
2017-present: Professor of Analytical Chemistry II with Laboratory at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Degree Course in Chemistry).
Other teaching activity:
2001-present: Teacher of different modules of “Chemometrics”, “Statistics”, or “Instrumental Analytical Chemistry” for several public and private institutions, such as Italian National Research Council, Italian Ministry of Agriculture, Italian Customs’ Chemical Laboratories, Italian Air Force.
Membership and awards:
2001: Prize for the best thesis in Analytical Chemistry awarded by the Analytical Division of the Italian Chemical Society.
2006: Young Researcher Prize (prize for the best reseacher under 35 in Analytical Chemistry) awarded by the Analytical Division of the Italian Chemical Society.
2012: Chemometrics & Intelligent Laboratory Systems Award for contribution to the development of chemometrics in the last 5 years.
2006: Award for the best oral communication in chemometrics at the International Conference CM4CH06 – Chemometrics and Multivariate Analysis Applied to Cultural Heritage and Environment (Nemi, Italy).
2001-present: Member of the Italian Chemical Society.
2006-present: Member of the American Chemical Society.
2007-present: Session chairman in several national and international conferences.
2008-present: Member of several national and international PhD committees and evaluation boards.
2009-present: Member of the Editorial Board of Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems (Elsevier).
2010-present: Member of the Scientific Committee of the series of conferences CMA4CH – Chemometrics and Multivariate Analysis Applied to Cultural Heritage and Environment.
2010-present: Member of the Scientific Committee of the series of conferences WSC – Winter Symposium on Chemometrics.
2011-2015: Member of the Board of the Chemometrics group of the Italian Chemical Society.
2011-present: Member of the Editorial Board of Analytica Chimica Acta (Elsevier).
2012-present: Member of the Chemometrics study group of the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the EuCheMS.
2012: Member of the Scientific Committee of the conference AFRODATA2012.
2013: Member of the Scientific Committee of the conferences 8th Colloquium chemiometricum mediterraneum (Bevagna, Italy) and 13th Scandinavian Symposium of Chemometrics (Stockholm archipelago, Sweden)
2013-present: Associate Editor for Chemometrics of the Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry (John Wiley and Sons).
2014-present: Review Editor of Frontiers in Medicine (section: Geriatric Medicine).
2014-present: Member of the Board of the Italian Society for NIR spectroscopy (SISNIR).
2014: Guest Editor of the Virtual special issue of Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems collecting the proceedings of the CCM2013 conference.
2014: Co-chairman of the conference IASIM-14 (Rome, Italy).
2015: Co-chairman of the conference TRICAP2015 (Pecol (BL), Italy)
2015: Member of the Scientific Committee of the conferences 14th Scandinavian Symposium of Chemometrics (Chia Laguna, Italy) and XV Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry (Changsha, China).
2015-2019: Coordinator of the Chemometrics group of the Italian Chemical Society.
2015-present: Editor of Cogent Chemistry.
2015-present: Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy.
2016: Member of the Scientific Committee of the conferences NTCA2016 (Side-Antalya, Turkey), XVI Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry (Barcelona, Spain) and IASIM2016 (Chamonix, France).
2016-present: Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Spectral Imaging.
2018-present: Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Chemometrics.
2018-2019: Guest Editor of the Special issue of Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy collecting the proceedings of the NIRITALIA 2018 conference.
2019-present: Member of the Board of the Chemometrics group of the Italian Chemical Society as Past-Coordinator.
2019-present: Coordinator of the Chemometrics study group of the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the EuCheMS.
Refereeing activity:
Referee for several interational journals, among which: Analytical Chemistry, Trends in Analytical Chemistry, Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Analytica Chimica Acta, Talanta, Journal of Chemometrics, Food Chemistry, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Analytical Methods, Analytical Letters, MATCH, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, Journal of the American Oil Chemists’ Society, Journal of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists, Journal of Chromatography, Metabolomics.
Reviewer of International project proposals for the European Research Council (ERC), Flanders Research Foundation (FWO), South African National Research Foundation (NRF), Dutch Research Foundation (NWO).
Funding:
2008: 7000€ from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (FARI2008). Title of the project: Chemometrics and multivariate analysis for chromatography.
2010: 7500€ from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (FARI2010). Title of the project: Chemometrics for –omics data.
2010: 15000€ from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (ATENEO2010). Title of the project: Development of chemometric methods for the interpretation of analytical data.
2012: 2500€ from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (CONGRESSI2012). Cofinancing for the organization of the conference VIII Colloquium Chemiometricum Mediterraneum.
2012: 12000€ from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (UNIVERSITÀ2012). Title of the project: Development of chemometric methods and their application to food chemical problems.
2013: 6800€ from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (UNIVERSITÀ2013). Title of the project: Innovative chemometrics-based analytical approaches for the evaluation of food quality.
2014: 10000€ from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (UNIVERSITÀ2014). Title of the project: Coupling of novel chemometric methods to NIR spectroscopy for a rapid and non-destructive characterization of complex matrices.
2014-2016: 11000€ from the JPI “Healthy diet for a healthy life (JPI-HDHL). Title of the project: European Nutritional Phenotype Assessment Data Sharing Initiative (ENPADASI).
2015: 11000€ from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (RICERCA2015). Title of the project: Design and application of advanced chemometric methods for food quality control.
2015-2017: 41700€ from Fondazione Roma. Title of the project: BIOmarkers associated with Sarcopenia and PHysical frailty in EldeRly pErsons: the BIOSPHERE study.
2017: 12500€ from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (RICERCA2017). Title of the project: Design and application of advanced chemometric methods for the analysis of hyperspectral images.
2019: 15000€ from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (RICERCA2018). Title of the project: Advanced chemometric methods for the analysis of multi-block data and their application in the biomedical field.
Summary of scientific production.
152 publications on scientific journals (151 international, 1 national).
22 book chapters
3 proceedings in book.
1 edited book (Chemometrics in Food Chemistry, Elsevier, 2013)
156 communications in national and international conferences (oral + poster), of which:
– 41 invited
– 23 plenary
h-index: 30
number of citations (April 2020): 3246