Head of the Stable Isotope and Traceability Platform
Food Quality and Nutrition
Department
Research and Innovation Centre -
Fondazione Edmund Mach
Education and
training
She graduated in Pharmaceutical
Chemistry and Technology (1998) and specialized in Chemical Methodologies for
Survey and Analysis (2001) at the University of Padua. Since 1998 she has been
working as a researcher at the Agricultural Institute of San Michele all’Adige,
now the Edmund Mach Foundation, where she is currently the head of the ‘Stable
Isotope and Traceability’ unit.
Research activity
Federica Camin has been involved
in several projects funded by European agencies and by national, regional and
private agencies. She is the scientific coordinator of the Italian wine
isotopic data bank (EC Reg. 555/2008; from 2007) and a member of five Italian
analytical methods boards (wine and derivates; honey; fruits and vegetables;
milk and dairy products; fat and olive oil: 2009-2012).
Research interests
Her main area of
research concerns the application of stable isotope ratio analysis of
bio-elements in food, aimed at characterising geographical origin, controlling
and protecting quality and authenticity. More recently, she started using
stable isotope ratios to support studies in the fields of ecology, hydrology,
physiology and paleo-climatology.