Margherita Ferrante

Full Professor of General and Applied Hygiene, Director of Environmental and Food Hygiene Laboratories (LIAA), at the University of Catania, and Director of the Hygiene Complex Unit of the Catania University Hospital. Head of the Integrated Cancer Registry CT-ME-EN. Coordinator of numerous national and international working group. Member of numerous national and international commissions and scientific societies. Member of the Task-force Environment and Health of the Italian Ministry of Health. She has had numerous awards, including the Merli Award for the Environment in 2019. Author of about 800 publications in national and international journals. Editor and Reviewer in numerous International Impacted Journals.
She has distinguished itself in the development and consolidation of new water, waste water and waste management monitoring technologies and solutions. She worked a lot for the development of green solutions and knowledge in the field of the waste management, for the acquisition of correct lifestyles and for the protection of public health. She has long been involved in the research of innovative methods for determining emerging pollutants in environment, and more recently micro- and nanoplastics (national and international patent plastest PCT/IB2019/051838).