Paola Nocera

Paola completed her MSc in Pharmacy at the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli and then completed her PhD in Chemical Sciences at the University of Naples Federico II in Italy. During her PhD Paola carried out a project on the isolation and the chemical characterization of phytotoxic secondary metabolites produced by phytopathogenic fungi of agrarian crops.

At Bactobio, Paola leads the extraction, purification, and characterization of secondary metabolites from unculturable bacteria, using analytical and chromatographic techniques and data analysis, for the screening of novel antibiotics.