Staff Profiles

Ms Chiara Cassarini

M.Sc., PhD

Contact Details

Postdoc
Orbsen Building, NUI Galway
T: Ext. 5361
M: 0830446104
E: chiara.cassarini@nuigalway.ie
@ccassarini

Biography

I am an environmental scientist interested in the chemical and biological processes for environmental biotechnological applications. I obtained my BSc degree in Industrial Chemistry in July 2010 at Bologna University (Italy) and my MSc in Geochemistry in August 2012 at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). I obtained my PhD in Environmental Technology in June 2017 from UNESCO-IHE (the Netherlands), University of Paris-Est (France) and University of Cassino (Italy) as part of the Environmental Technology for soil, soilid and sediment (ETeCoS3) Erasmus joint doctorate project.

Research Interests

I am interested in the chemical and biological processes for environmental biotechnological applications.

Waste water treatment
Bioreactors configuration
Desulfurization
Sulfur metabolism
Green house gases

Twitter: @ccassarini

Research gate: www.researchgate.net/profile/Chiara_Cassarini

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QC7YxjUAAAAJ&hl=en

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/chiara-cassarini-495b2b37

Peer Reviewed Journals

	Year	Publication
	(2019)	'Physiology and Distribution of Archaeal Methanotrophs That Couple Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane with Sulfate Reduction' Chiara Cassarini, Susma Bhattarai and Piet N. L. Lens (2019) 'Physiology and Distribution of Archaeal Methanotrophs That Couple Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane with Sulfate Reduction'. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 83 (3) [Details]
	(2019)	'Anaerobic methane oxidation coupled to sulfate reduction in a biotrickling filter: Reactor performance and microbial community analysis' Chiara Cassarini, Eldon R. Rene, Susma Bhattarai, Carsten Vogt, Niculina Musat, Piet N.L.Lens (2019) 'Anaerobic methane oxidation coupled to sulfate reduction in a biotrickling filter: Reactor performance and microbial community analysis'. Chemosphere, 236 (December 2019) [DOI] [Details]
	(2019)	'Enrichment of anaerobic methanotrophs in biotrickling filters using different sulfur compounds as electron acceptor' Chiara Cassarini, Susma Bhattarai, Graciela Gonzalez-Gil, Eldon R. Rene, Carsten Vogt, Niculina Musat, Piet N.L.Lens (2019) 'Enrichment of anaerobic methanotrophs in biotrickling filters using different sulfur compounds as electron acceptor'. Environmental Engineering Science, 36 (4):431-443 [Details]
	(2017)	'Anaerobic oxidation of methane coupled to thiosulfate reduction in a biotrickling filter' Chiara Cassarini, Eldon R. Rene, Susma Bhattarai, Giovanni Esposito, Piet N.L.Lens (2017) 'Anaerobic oxidation of methane coupled to thiosulfate reduction in a biotrickling filter'. Bioresource Technology, 240 :214-222 [Details]
	(2017)	'Anaerobic Methane-Oxidizing Microbial Community in a Coastal Marine Sediment: Anaerobic Methanotrophy Dominated by ANME-3' Susma Bhattarai, Chiara Cassarini, Graciela Gonzalez-Gil, Matthias Egger, Caroline P. Slomp, Yu Zhang, Giovanni Esposito, Piet N. L. Lens (2017) 'Anaerobic Methane-Oxidizing Microbial Community in a Coastal Marine Sediment: Anaerobic Methanotrophy Dominated by ANME-3'. Microbial Ecology, 74 (3):608-622 [Details]
	(2018)	'Enrichment of ANME‐2 dominated anaerobic methanotrophy from cold seep sediment in an external ultrafiltration membrane bioreactor' Susma Bhattarai, Chiara Cassarini, Eldon R. Rene, Steffen Kümmel, Giovanni Esposito, Piet N. L. Lens (2018) 'Enrichment of ANME‐2 dominated anaerobic methanotrophy from cold seep sediment in an external ultrafiltration membrane bioreactor'. Engineering In Life Sciences, 18 (6):368-378 [Details]
	(2018)	'Enrichment of sulfate reducing anaerobic methane oxidizing community dominated by ANME-1 from Ginsburg Mud Volcano (Gulf of Cadiz) sediment in a biotrickling filter' Susma Bhattarai, Chiara Cassarini, Eldon R.Rene, Yu Zhang, Giovanni Esposito, Piet N. L. Lens (2018) 'Enrichment of sulfate reducing anaerobic methane oxidizing community dominated by ANME-1 from Ginsburg Mud Volcano (Gulf of Cadiz) sediment in a biotrickling filter'. Bioresource Technology, 259 :433-441 [Details]
	(2018)	'Microbial sulfate-reducing activities in anoxic sediment from Marine Lake Grevelingen: screening of electron donors and acceptors' Chiara Cassarini, Susma Bhattarai, Zita Naangmenyele, Eldon R. Rene, Graciela Gonzalez-Gil, Giovanni Esposito, Piet N. L. Lens (2018) 'Microbial sulfate-reducing activities in anoxic sediment from Marine Lake Grevelingen: screening of electron donors and acceptors'. Journal Of Limnology, 19 (1):31-41 [Details]
	(2019)	'Pressure Selects Dominant Anaerobic Methanotrophic Phylotype and Sulfate Reducing Bacteria in Coastal Marine Lake Grevelingen Sediment' Chiara Cassarini, Yu Zhang and Piet N. L. Lens (2019) 'Pressure Selects Dominant Anaerobic Methanotrophic Phylotype and Sulfate Reducing Bacteria in Coastal Marine Lake Grevelingen Sediment'. Frontiers in Environmental Science, [DOI] [Details]

Employment

	Employer	Position	From / To
	National University of Ireland Galway	Postdoc researcher	01-NOV-17 / 31-OCT-21
	Utrecht University	Lab assistant	01-MAR-13 / 31-AUG-13

Education

Year	Institution	Qualification	Subject
2017	UNESCO-IHE, Delft, the Netherlands	PhD	Environmental Technologies for Contaminated Solids, Soils and Sediments
2012	Utrecht University	MSc	Geochemistry
2010	Bologna University	BSc	Industrial Chemistry

Honours and Awards

Year	Title	Awarding Body
2017	Short Term Scientific Mission scholarship	COST Action
2017	Best paper in the journal issue	Bioresource Technology Journal
2013	PhD fellowship grant	EU Erasmus Mundus Doctorate

Community Engagement

	Title	Type	From / To
	Outreach	Pint of Science	20-MAY-19 / 20-MAY-19
	Teaching (e.g. Service learning / comunity based learning)	Cell Explorer NUI Galway	14-JAN-19 / 30-JUN-19

Languages

	Language
	Italian
	English

Other Activities

	Description
	First Aid Responder from December 2018

Teaching Interests

One of my long-term objectives is to grow as a scientist and expand my ability of supporting and leading a scientific team. Growing as a lecturer at the University is part of the fulfilment of this goal.

I have given lectures in the regular Biotechnology program for undergraduate students of Environmental Biotechnology at NUI Galway (Ireland) and in a PhD course on the analytics for environmental technology analysis, specifically on nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry (NanoSIMS), at IHE Delft (the Netherlands). I am supervising undergraduate students and co-supervising PhD students.

I would like to improve and expand my teaching skills to progress in my academic career.