DrEleonora Moratto

Postdoctoral Research Associate in SOIL-ON-A-CHIP Mycorrhiza

Department of Bioengineering - Faculty of Engineering

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate in SOIL-ON-A-CHIP Mycorrhiza
    Department of Bioengineering - Faculty of Engineering
  • Royal School of Mines, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom

BIO

Eleonora is a postdoctoral researcher in the Bioengineering Department at Imperial College London. In 2024 she received her PhD in Plant-Pathogen interactions from the Life Sciences Department at Imperial College London. During her PhD she was awarded the Laura Bassi Scholarship (2023) and was nominated Woman Scientist of the Month by the European Platform of Women Scientists (2023). Eleonora is also the Early Career Researcher representative for the Imperial Fungal Network. Her current research focuses on early stages of root colonisation by Arbuscular Mycorrhizal fungi. To achieve this, she incorporates her image analysis skills with the microfluidic technology knowledge of the Stanley lab.

DEGREES

  • PhD
    Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom1 Oct 2020 - 1 Mar 2024
  • MRes Molecular and Cellular Biosciences
    Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom1 Oct 2019 - 30 Sep 2020
  • MRes Molecular Plant and Microbial Sciences
    Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom2 Oct 2017 - 28 Sep 2018
  • BSc (Hons) Biology
    Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom1 Oct 2014 - 30 Jun 2017

FACULTY

  • Faculty of Engineering

POSITION NAME

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate in SOIL-ON-A-CHIP

FIELDS OF RESEARCH