digital card of Irene Cardaio

Scientific career

• since 2022:
  Ph.D. Student at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e. V. - Institute of Resource Ecology, Surface Processes division
• 2021:
  Master of Science in Biology - Microbiology and Genetics (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
• 2020:
  Student Research Assistant for the project “Experimental investigation of particle radiation” in the Solid Fuel Combustion group of the Institute of Heat and Mass Transfer (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
• 2016:
  Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences (Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy)

Research fields

• Technetium interaction with microorganisms
• Microbial utilization and upcycling of plastic waste-deriving pyrolysis condensates
• Experimental investigation of particle radiation in an acoustic levitator
• Bioelectrochemistry; microbial fuel cells; microbial external electron transfer

Projects

• Since September 2022: NukSiFutur Young investigators group TecRad: Interactions of technetium with microorganisms, metabolites and at the mineral-water interface – Radioecological considerations. Funded by BMBF via PTKA (02NUK072)
• 05 – 10/2020. "Oxyflame – Entwicklung von Methoden und Modellen zur Beschreibung der Reaktion fester Brennstoffe in einer Oxy-Fuel-Atmosphäre" – funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – Project number 215035359 - TRR 129

Grants

• 06 – 07/2011. Scholarship for a German Course for Italian students awarded by Pädagogischer Austauschdienst des Sekretariats der Kultusministerkonferenz in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (PAD), in cooperation with DAAD, the German Academic Exchange Service