Alessia Pancaro

Alessia Pancaro graduated Magna Cum Laude in Molecular and Industrial Biotechnologies in Italy in 2018. She then moved to Belgium, where she worked at VITO (Health Unit) as a PhD fellow within the European Marie Curie ITN consortium NanoCarb. During this time, she also joined the Dynamic Bioimaging Lab at the Biomedical Research Institute (BIOMED) of Hasselt University. In her PhD research, she developed a diagnostic sensing platform using gold nanorods conjugated with synthetic glycopolymers and earned her PhD in Biomedical Sciences from Hasselt University in 2023.

In October 2023, Alessia joined the group of Nanobiophysics and Soft Matter Interfaces at the Institute for Materials Research (imo-imomec) at Hasselt University as an FWO postdoctoral researcher, in collaboration with VITO (Environmental Intelligence Unit). Her research focuses on developing biomimetic stimuli-responsive nanocarriers for inhalable drug delivery in lung cancer. Outside of work, Alessia enjoys traveling, swimming, and watching movies.