Prof. Genchi is Co-Principal Investigator of the ongoing PROMETEO project (funded by Agenzia Spaziale Italiana-ASI) at IIT, and Coordinator of the PRIN 2022 PNRR REPAIR project (funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research) at UniBa, she is also responsible for a doctoral grant (2024-2027) funded by ASI for space biology studies at UniBa.
She actively collaborates with several national and international universities and research institutes, including IIT, Polytechnic University of Bari, University of Salford, and Vanderbilt University. She has strong expertise in planning and implementing experiments under altered gravity conditions, including flight on board the International Space Station, by participation to the following national and international projects: Transformers (European Space Agency-ESA 2014), PlanOx (ESA, 2015), NanoROS (ASI, 2017), NOEMI (ESA, Cariplo, 2019), InterGravity (ESA, 2022), and Nichoid in Space (ESA, 2022).
Associate Professor of Bioengineering, University of Bari "Aldo Moro" (UniBa)
Visiting Scientist, Smart Bio-Interfaces, Center for Materials Interfaces, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)
Prof. Genchi conducts research on micro- and nanofabrication of smart materials, materials characterization, tissue engineering with smart materials and recombinant DNA, and space biology.
