Laura Spagnuolo

Laura is a Post-Doc researcher with a fellowship financed by Regione Toscana within the program FSE+ 2021-2027. The name of her project is “SALVABIO- Sustainability and Biocompatibility for the Conservation of Book Heritage with Nanocellulose”. During her project, Laura will extract cellulose nanocrystals from cellulosic biomass and use the nanocrystals as a protective coating for historical paper. Previously, Laura has been a PhD student under the supervision of Alessandra Operamolla. She successfully defended her thesis, entitled “Mechano-enzymatic extraction of cellulose nanocrystals and their functionalization for antibacterial materials”, in May 2025. Laura has accomplished her PhD studies with a high level of internationalization, having completed long and short research visits at INP Grenoble (LGP₂ Laboratory, Supervisor Prof. Alain Dufresne) and at Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen (Supervisor Prof. Patrick van der Wel). Laura’s research interests concern enzymes, cellulose nanocrystals and antibacterial materials.