Tarita Biver

Nationality: Italian, French Born 12/03/1973 - Pisa (I) Married; 2 sons
Feb2005 PhD in Chemical Sciences
Jun2000 Master degree in Chemistry – University of Pisa (UNIPI) with honours (110/110 summa cum laude)

Assistant professor (Ricercatore) at UNIPI since Feb.2006
Associate professore at UNIPI since July 2021.

Vice-President of the Curricula for Studies in Chemistry since January 2019.
International Actions Coordinator (CAI) for Chemistry at UNIPI until October 2018 – Vice CAI for Pharmacy from February 2019 until now. UNIPI Delegate for DHIP European Project (Development of Higher Education Institutions’ Internationalization Policies).
Young Researchers Prize 2011 UNIPI.
Reviewer for RCS, ACS, Wiley and Elsevier journals (https://publons.com/researcher/1518428/tarita-biver/).

PUBLICATIONS: 94 publications in ISI journals (+ 2 accepted +2 submitted), 175 communications to international congresses. H-index 23; 1338 citations. Orcid number: 0000-0001-8512-8422. ResearcherID: F-1193-2010. Scopus Author ID: 6507026065.
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RESEARCH INTERESTS: Analytical study of equilibrium constants, of reaction mechanisms and of complex systems speciation. In particular, spectrophotometric and spectrofluorometric analysis of kinetics and thermodynamics of metal complexes in solution and of small molecules interaction with polynucleotides and proteins for health and environment, micelles/liposomes interaction as cellular membrane models, micellar extraction for the environment, fluorophores for new materials as solar concentrators, smart paintings and sensors.

VISITS ABROAD: PhD at Max-Planck Institute of Göttingen (D) (Nov-Dec’06) and Visiting Professor at University of Burgos (Spain, Dec’06-Jan’07 and Sep’11), Mongolian University of Science and Technology (Ulan Bator, Mongolia, June 2018) and Cadi Ayyad University of Marrakesh (Morocco, Nov 2019).

RECENT DIDACTICS: Chair of “Fundamentals of Analytical Chemistry” - Bachelor Degree in Chemistry (from 2011 on) and Co-chair for “Analytical Chemistry V and Laboratory” – Master Degree in Chemistry (from 2010 on). Supervisor of 26 Bachelor, 24 Master and 3 PhD Theses in Chemistry and Biological and Molecular Sciences. Board for European PhD Theses at UNI Burgos (E), Granada (E) and Seville (E).

PROJECTS: Italian Ministry project PRIN2017 (2019-2021). PRA_2017_28 and PRA_2015_0038 of the University of Pisa. Member of founded Tuscany region project POR-CREO (2018-2020) and of three PNRA (National Project for Research in Antarctica: PNRA16_00020; PNRA18_00194; PNRA18_00216). Scientific Coordinator of the Internat. Cooper. Action between UNIPI and UNIBurgos 2011-2012. UNIPI project 2006 (CIVR). Foreigner member of Spanish Research Projects from Junta de Castilla y Leòn –2012-2015/2016-2018/2019-2021 and Bank Foundation "Obra Social La Caixa" –2013-2016/2019-2021. Coordinator of Massachusetts MIT-UNIPI project (2017/2018). Member of the Managing Committee of COST project NECTAR - Network for Equilibria and Chemical Thermodynamics Advanced Research (OC-2018-2-23144)

BOARDS&COMMITTES: Referee for the Italian Ministry of the Research Production Evaluation (VQR 2004-2010) and board for Ministerial Funding (PRIN - FISR) and for Chemistry Scientific Board of UNIPI for Chemistry - 2010/2014. Tuscany Section of the Italian Chemical Society - 2010-2016. PhD Council in “Chemical and Materials Sciences” at UNIPI. Member of the scientific committee of ISMEC Congress, yearly organised by the European Group of Metal Complexes. Organiser of ISMEC2009, Year of Light 2015 and Chemistry for the Future 2016 – 2017 Congresses (Pisa). Invited speaker at ICBIC19 - 19th International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry, Interlaken (CH), August 2019. Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/editors).