Digital card of Irene Cardaio
Scientific career
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since 2022:
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2021:Master of Science in Biology - Microbiology and Genetics (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
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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)
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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 / Prizes
- 09/2025. Best Poster Award at the 19th Conference on the Migration of Actinides and Fission Products in the Geosphere (Migration ´25)
- 12/2024. Mobility grant awarded by the Graduate Academy of the Technische Universität Dresden for a resarch stay at the University of Manchester (02-04/2025)
- 10/2024. Mobility grant awarded by the European Radioecology Alliance for a research stay at the University of Manchester (02-04/2025)
- 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
