UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE

The University of Florence is an important and influential centre for research and higher training in Italy, with 1,800 lecturers and internal research staff, 1,600 technical and administrative staff, and over 1,600 research assistants and doctoral students.  It is one of the largest and most productive public research systems in Italy.  

UNIFI offers a wide range of study programmes at various levels and in all areas of knowledge.

Over 130 Degree courses (First and Second Cycle, corresponding to Bachelor's and Master's Degrees) organised in 10 Schools, with a population of about 51,000 enrolled students, one-fourth of which come from outside of Tuscany.

There are over 9,000 degrees awarded each year in Florence. According to the alumni data, the percentage of students who are in the workforce one year after their First Level degree is above national average.

Prof. Massimo Del Bubba is author of 120 papers published in "peer reviewed" international journals indexed on Scopus that have received about 3400 citations, achieving an H-index of 31. 

Prof. Del Bubba has a long experience in the development of analytical methods based on chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry and in the study of wastewater treatment technologies, including constructed wetlands, for the removal of nutrients, as well as inorganic and organic micropollutants. As principal investigator, he is currently carrying out research activities on the recycling of sludge from wastewater treatment plants for the synthesis of biochars and their use as sorbents in biological filters and constructed wetlands. Furthermore, he has a deep expertise in the analysis of fruit quality in terms of contents of primary and secondary metabolites, important for human nutrition and health protection. Recently, he has investigated the transfer of organic micropollutants of industrial origin to food crops, from treated industrial-domestic wastewater used for irrigation. He has been manager of research unit or principal investigator in several national and international projects concerning the issues of environmental sciences and food chemistry; he has been also scientific manager in numerous research assignments entrusted by companies, obtaining fundings for a total amount of about 1.7 million euros.