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I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow, specialised in sustainable alternative pavement materials. My primary focus is on developing and proposing innovative and durable material solutions for various applications, particularly within civil and transport infrastructures, with a specific emphasis on promoting waste and biomass valorisation for sustainable, and safe urban environments and areas. In 2018, I graduated from Sorbonne Université, France, with a Master's degree in Material Chemistry. The same year was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions PhD grant at the University of Bologna, Italy as part of the SAFERUP project (Sustainable, Accessible, Safe, Resilient, and Smart Urban Pavement). In 2022, I successfully defended my thesis titled “Vulnerable Users' Protection with Advanced Recycling Paving Materials: Design and Characterisation of rubber-based impact-absorbing pavement materials for bicycle lanes and sidewalks”. My research projects has been addressing numerous Sustainable Development Goals (mainly 3, 9, 11, and 12) and focus on developing and characterising advanced materials to improve urban road sustainability and safety. This involves utilising recycled and/or biomass and by-products resources such as end-of-life tyres, green/waste oils, or lignin. Additionally, I explore various methods to assess and prevent slip and fall-related injuries in urban areas. Furthermore, my expertise extends to surface/interface chemistry and coating production and modification techniques, including wet coating and plasma, as well as material chemistry characterisation methods, all of which I have applied to different projects.