Environmental engineer with expertise in sustainable process engineering, fermentation technologies, and bioelectrochemical systems for resource recovery. Expert in chemical and environmental engineering, with a strong focus on green technologies and industrial-scale applications. Experienced in both experimental research and system-level analysis, with a results-oriented and collaborative approach. Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Sapienza University of Rome, currently working on the valorization of wastewater, food and industrial by-products for biohydrogen production.
• IWA Water and Development Congress & Exhibition - BANGKOK, THAILAND - 12/2025 - Oral presentation: Sustainable Hydrogen Production In A Two-Chamber MEC: Effect of Synthetic and Real Substrate Feeding on System Performance
• 19th IWA Conference on Sludge Management Toward material cycle and low carbon society – KYOTO, JAPAN – 10/2025 – Poster presentation: Powering Wastewater Treatment Circularity: Hydrogen Production through Microbial Electrolysis Cells
• 9th World Conference of the International Society for Microbial Electrochemistry and Technology (ISMET) – LEIPZIG, GERMANY – 09/2025 - Poster presentation: Sustainable Hydrogen Production Valorizing Organic Waste through Microbial Electrolysis Cells: A Comparative Study of Substrate Impact.
• Gricu Congress “Challenging Chemical Engineering” – ISCHIA, ITALY – 09/2025 - Oral presentation: Bioelectrochemical Hydrogen Production in a Three-Chamber MEC: Integrating OFMSW Treatment and Renewable Energy Recovery
• 12th International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management – PAPHOS, CYPRUS – 06/2025 - Oral presentation: Sustainable Hydrogen Production in a Two-Cathodic Chamber MEC: Effect of Synthetic and Real Substrate Feeding on System Performance
• Hydrogen Expo – HAMBURG, GERMANY – 09/2024
• European Federation Biotechnology (EFB) – Green Deal Biotechnology, POZNAN, POLAND – 11/2023 - Oral presentation: Resources recovery through the acidogenic fermentation of food industry by-products performed in a lab-scale sequencing batch reactor.
• 1th Symposium for young chemists: innovation and sustainability (SYNC), ROME, ITALY- 06/2022 - Oral presentation: Mixed microbial culture polyhydroxyalkanoates production from foodindustry byproducts.
• 9th International conference on sustainable solid waste management, CORFU, GREECE- 06/2022 - Oral presentation: Mixed cultures polyhydroxyalkanoates accumulation with synthetic and real feedstocks.
• 7th International conference on industrial biotechnology (IBIC), NAPLES, ITALY- 06/2022 - Oral presentation: Polyhydroxyalkanoates production by mixed microbial cultures in sequencing batch reactors operated under different feeding conditions.
• European Federation Biotechnology (EFB), online conference, ITALY- 05/2021 - Poster presentation: Controlling the composition of polyhydroxyalkanoates produced with mixed microbial cultures from waste feedstocks by fine-tuning the organic load rate.
• 5th Edition of International Conference on Chemical Engineering (ICCE), online conference, ITALY- 10/2020 - Poster presentation: Valorization of food industry byproducts towards polyhydroxyalkanoates production by mixed microbial cultures.
• Conference on Environmental Science and Technology (CEST), RHODES, GREECE- 09/2019 - Oral presentation: On the effect of specific boundary flux parameters on membrane process design.
• 14th International Conference on chemical and process engineering (ICHEAP), BOLOGNA, ITALY 05/2019 - Oral presentation: Continuous removal of Cr(VI) by lab-scale fixed-bed column packed with chitosan-nanomagnetite particles.
• 2nd International conference on nanotechnology based innovative applications for the environment (NINE), NAPLES, ITALY 04/2019 - Oral presentation: Design of novel equipment capable to quickly produce efficient nanomaterials for use in environmental and sanitary emergencies.
• Gruppo di Ingegneria Chimica dell’Università (GRICU), PALERMO, ITALY- PhD school and
Conference 06/2019 about “Green Chemistry and Chemical Engineering” and “Chemical Engineering for Biomedical Application”.
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2) Marchetti, A., et al., (2025). Optimizing Hydrogen Production Through Efficient Organic Matter Oxidation Performed by Microbial Electrolysis Cells. Processes, 13(4), 1231. https://doi.org/10.3390/pr13041231
3) Dell'Armi, E., et al., (2025). Field test of a scaled-up bioelectrochemical sequential reductive/oxidative process for chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons (CAHs) remediation from contaminated groundwater. Chemical Engineering Journal, 169825. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2025.169825
4) Pietrelli, A., et al., (2025). Insights into Microbial Fuel Cell: Recovering Energy from Microbial Electrolysis Cells for Low Power Applications. AISEM Annual Conference on Sensors and Microsystems. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland,1497. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-08271-8_15
5) Salvatori, G., et al., (2025). 13C‐Labelled Glucose Reveals Shifts in Fermentation Pathway During Cathodic Electro‐Fermentation with Mixed Microbial Culture. ChemSusChem, 18(2), 202401033. https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.202401033
6) Salvatori, G., et al., (2025). Pilot-Scale Acidogenic Fermentation of Reground Pasta Byproduct for Polyhydroxyalkanoate Production with Mixed Microbial Cultures. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 13(8), 3024-3035. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssuschemeng.4c03754
7) Marchetti, A., et al., (2024). Valorization of Reground Pasta By-Product through PHA Production with Phototrophic Purple Bacteria. Catalysts, 14(4), 239. https://doi.org/10.3390/catal14040239
8) Marchetti, A., et al., (2024). Developing Bioplastics from Agro-Industrial Wastes for Applications in Food Packaging. Chapter-book; pp. 273– 316.
9) Angelini, F., et al., (2024). Efficient utilization of monosaccharides from agri-food byproducts supports Chlorella vulgaris biomass production under mixotrophic conditions. Algal Research, 77, 103358. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.algal.2023.103358
10) Marchetti, A., et al., (2023). Evaluation of the acidogenic fermentation potential of food industry by- products. Biochemical Engineering Journal 199. 109029. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bej.2023.109029
11) Montone, C.M., et al., (2023). Biotic transformation products of sulfonamides in environmental water samples: High-resolution mass spectrometry-based tentative identification by a suspect screening approach. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis 227, 115292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpba.2023.115292
12) Marzulli, F., et al., (2023). Coupled Biological and Thermochemical Process for Plastic Waste Conversion into Biopolymers."Chemical Engineering Transactions 100, 469-474. https://doi.org/10.3303/CET23100079
13) Virdis, B., et al., (2022). Electro-fermentation: sustainable bioproductions steered by electricity. Biotechnology Advances 59, 107950. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biotechadv.2022.107950
14) Marchetti, A., et al., (2022). Polyhydroxyalkanoates Production by Mixed Microbial Cultures in Sequencing Batch Reactors Operated under Different Feeding Conditions. Chemical Engineering Transactions 93, 163-168. https://doi.org/10.3303/CET2293028
15) Marchetti, A., and Stoller, M., (2019). On the micromixing behavior of a spinning disk reactor for metallic Cu nanoparticles production. Applied sciences 9.16, 3311. https://doi.org/10.3390/app9163311
16) Vuppala, S., et al., (2019). Continuous removal of Cr (VI) by lab-scale fixed-bed column packed with chitosan-nanomagnetite particles. Chemical Engineering Transactions 73, 193-198. https://doi.org/10.3303/CET1973033
17) Stoller, M. et al., (2019). Design of novel equipment capable to quickly produce efficient nanomaterials for use in environmental and sanitary emergencies. Chemical Engineering Transactions, 187-192. https://doi.org/10.3303/CET1973032
18) Stoller, M., et al., (2019). On The Effect of Specific Boundary Flux Parameters on Membrane Process Design. Chemical Engineering Transactions 74, 685-690. https://doi.org/10.3303/CET1974115