Giulia Bennici is a PhD student in the Flexible Systems group. She is interested in the metabolomic profiling of food and plants, and is currently working on the development and optimization of extraction protocols for the untargeted metabolomic profiling of a traditional medicinal plant that is widely used in Palestine and Jordan; Ephedra Foeminea.  

• Ph.D. in Bioscience, Flexible Systems group, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST), (2023-present)
• M.Sc. in Sustainable Industrial Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, University of Siena, Italy, 2022
• B.Sc. in Biotechnology, University of Pisa, Italy, 2020

• QC Analyst intern at Philogen, Siena, Italy, in the QC Biochemistry Lab (6 months), duties included checking the quality of raw materials and intermediates of product used for the development of a new drug against melanoma