Antonello Santini
University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Professor Antonello SANTINI, has a degree in Industrial Chemistry and Pharmacy, and is a PhD in Chemical Sciences, a title obtained in 1992 at the University of Naples Federico II. He is Professor of Food Chemistry, and carries out his research activity at the Department of Pharmacy of the University of Naples Federico II. He is responsible for the Virtual Laboratory of Research and Food Education (LVA, www.lva.unina.it ) and the NLL platform (NetLearningLaboratory, www.nll.unina.it). His teaching activity includes: Food Chemistry, Food Chemistry and Analysis of Foods and Nutraceuticals, General Chemistry, General and Inorganic Chemistry, Fundamentals of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Chemistry Laboratory, NLL Chemistry Laboratory (FAD in e-learning), Chemistry and Biochemical Propaedeutics, Chemistry Teaching, Resources for Science Teaching on the Internet. He is an expert member of the European Food Safety Authority EFSA, ERWG, Parma, Italy; of the National Committee for Food Safety (CNSA) of the Italian Ministry of Health (Rome), of the Board of Directors of the Teaching Division (DD-SCI) of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI), Rome, Italy. He is a Chemist and has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Register of Chemists of Campania (Italy). He is also a member of the Register of European Chemists. He was an expert member of the National Committee for Food Safety (CNSA, Rome Italian Ministry of Health). He is an expert evaluator of national and international research projects. He is Editor in Chief of two international journals: Journal of Food Research and Food Science and Technology Letters, and Section Editor in Chief of Foods. He acts as a Referee and Academic Editor for international journals with a high impact index. He acts as a Referee for projects funded by national and foreign institutions. He is responsible for Erasmus mobility agreements with universities in countries including: Poland, Turkey, Romania, Portugal, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania. He is responsible and coordinator of General Cultural Framework Institutional University Agreements with the Universities of Buenos Aires, La Plata, Rio Negro (Argentina); General Cultural Framework Agreements are also being signed with San Paolo (Brazil), Casablanca (Morocco), Peje (Kosovo). His main research interests are: study of nutraceuticals, food chemistry and analysis, food additives and contaminants, food safety, recovery and characterization of active substances from agro-food waste to be used in the production of food supplements and nutraceuticals; chemical education, food chemistry and food education: development of web-based multimedia tools to support lifelong learning; educational development and tools to promote active learning and support students to memorize more information in an easily usable way, and facilitate the development of effective problem solving skills. In particular, the role of interactive learning, the use of computer-based multimedia tools / web platforms (FAD, E-learning) as tools to promote the understanding of complex scientific processes and concepts. He is the author of over three hundred publications in highly qualified international journals, book chapters (FAD, e-learning and printed).
