Ilaria Carafa

Ilaria holds a MSc degree in Food, Agriculture and Agro-environmental Biotechnology (University of Milan), a MS degree in Biotech Industry (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain), and a European PhD in Biomolecular Science (University of Ancona). She worked at Laboratorios Ordesa (Barcelona, Spain), Teagasc-Agriculture and Food Development Authority (Fermoy, Ireland), Fondazione Edmund Mach (San Michele all'Adige, Trento), and Free University of Bolzano as researcher and lecturer in food and agriculture microbiology. She has experience in academia, stakeholder management, and scaling up technologies from the pilot plant to the industrial level.

• Agri-food
• Agri-tech
• Biotechnology
• Technology development and scale-up
• Stakeholder management