Valeria Loise
University of Calabria, Italy
Biography
Valeria Loise was born in 1986 in Cosenza, Italy. She received her Master’s degree in Chemistry, in 2016 at the University of Calabria. She has attended her PhD in “Life of Sciences” at the same University, working on the effects of the rejuvenator on the bitumen, since 2017. Her major area of expertise is the study of colloidal systems. In particular, she focuses on the chemistry of bitumen and its additives, approaching the open challenges in this area of research from a chemical point of view, also making use of investigation and analytical techniques never used before to study asphalt binders.