Ilaria Maria Cigognini

Experimental Station for the Food Preserving Industry

Abstract Title: Eco-friendly extraction of cutin from unripe green tomatoes by using different ecological and sustainable technologies

Biography:

Ilaria Maria Cigognini graduated in Chemistry at the University of Modena in 2008. She is working in the SSICA Packaging Division since 2012, where she works in the field of bio-based coating for food packaging, in particular she studies innovative and eco-sustainable packaging functionalized with active molecules extracted from agro-industrial by-products. In previous years in SSICA she followed several European projects (BIOCOPAC, BIOCOPACPLUS, AGRIMAX, PROLIFIC) focused on the valorisation and extraction of bioactive molecules from agro-industrial waste to create new sustainable food packaging. She is one of the inventor of the cutin extraction patent and co-author of different pubblications.

Research Interest:

cutin, agro-waste, ultrasounds, microwave, circular economy