Associate Professor Fabio Sonvico

Fabio Sonvico graduated in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technologies in 1999 at the University of Pavia (Italy) with a Master Thesis carried out in Bayer Italia on NIR non-invasive analysis of medicinal products.
Then he received his Ph.D. in 2004 form University of Parma (Italy) and University of Paris XI (France) with a co-tutorial research project under the supervision of Prof. P. Colombo and Prof. Patrick Couvreur on tumor-targeted superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles for hyperthermic therapy.

After an experience as researcher at the National Institute of the Physics of the Matter (INFM, Parma) joined Pharmaceutical Department of the University of Parma as Assistant Professor. In 2012 he moved to Australia at the Graduate School of Health of the University of Technology Sydney, where he was involved in setting up a new Master in Pharmacy at the Graduate School of Health.

Since January 2015 he is Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmacy of the University of Parma following several research projects on drug administration of nanomedicines by nasal and pulmonary routes and developing innovative approaches for products characterization. Since the beginning of 2025 he is the Director of the Interdepartmental Research Center Biopharmanet-TEC of the University of Parma.

He authored more than 140 papers, 10 book chapters and 7 patents and designs on novel dosage forms and apparatuses for their analysis.

He is an active member of the European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences (EUFEPS), having served as member of the Executive Committee and Treasurer from 2016 until 2024 and of the Italian Society of Pharmaceutical Technology and Legislation (SITELF).