Department of Chemistry
University of Basel
Mattenstrasse 24a, BPR-1096
4058 Basel, Switzerland

phone: +41 61 207 57 92
email: viviana.maffeis@clutterunibas.ch

Nanoparticles in food science (Collaboration: DSM and FHNW)

09/2018-present
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Basel, Switzerland
11/2014-03/2018
PhD in Science and Technology of Chemistry and Materials, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
03/2016-10/2017
Visiting Researcher at the Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
05/2015-08/2015
Visiting Researcher at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA
11/2013-03/2014
Erasmus Placement Fellowship at the Centre for Amyloidosis & Acute Phase Proteins, University College London, UK
11/2014
Enrolled in the Register of Pharmacists
10/2009-07/2014
MSc in Pharmacy, University of Pavia, Italy

High-Throughput Silica Nanoparticle Detection for Quality Control of Complex Early Life Nutrition Food Matrices [link]
V. Maffeis, A. Otter, A. Düsterloh, L. Kind, C. Palivan, S.S. Saxer
ACS Omega 2024, DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c09459

Advancing the Design of Artificial Nano-organelles for Targeted Cellular Detoxification of Reactive Oxygen Species [link]
V. Maffeis, M. Skowicki, K. M. P. Wolf, M. Chami, C.-A. Schoenenberger, V. Vogel, C. G. Palivan
Nano Letters 2024, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c03888

Peptide nanocarriers co-delivering an antisense oligonucleotide and photosensitizer elicit synergistic cytotoxicity [link]
S. Tarvirdipour, M. Skowicki, V. Maffeis, S. N. Abdollahi, C.-A. Schoenenberger, C. G. Palivan
J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2024, DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2024.03.021

A DNA-Micropatterned Surface for Propagating Biomolecular Signals by Positional on-off Assembly of Catalytic Nanocompartments [link]
V. Maffeis, D. Hürlimann, A. Krywko-Cendrowska, C.-A. Schoenenberger, C. E. Housecroft, C. G. Palivan
Small, 2022, DOI: 10.1002/smll.202202818

Inverting glucuronidation of hymecromone in situ by catalytic nanocompartments [link]
M. Korpidou, V. Maffeis, I. A. Dinu, C. Schoenenberger, W. P. Meier, C. G. Palivan
J. Mater. Chem. B, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2TB00243D

Membrane protein channels equipped with a cleavable linker for inducing catalysis inside nanocompartments [link]
L. Zartner, V. Maffeis, C.A. Schoenenberger, I.A. Dinu, C.G. Palivan
J. Mater. Chem. B, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D1TB01463C

Clustering of catalytic nanocompartments for enhancing an extracellular non-native cascade reaction [link]
V. Maffeis, A. Belluati, I. Craciun, D. Wu, S. Novak, C.-A. Schoenenberger, C. G. Palivan
Chem. Sci. 2021. DOI: 10.1039/D1SC04267J

Multicompartment Polymer Vesicles with Artificial Organelles for Signal‐Triggered Cascade Reactions Including Cytoskeleton Formation [link]
A. Belluati, S. Thamboo, A. Najer, V. Maffeis, C. von Planta, I. Craciun, C. G. Palivan, W. Meier
Adv. Funct. Mat., 2020, 2002949, 1-11. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202002949.

Design and applications of biomimetic membranes and assemblies [link]
V. Chimisso, V. Maffeis, D. Hürlimann, C.G. Palivan, W. Meier
Macromol. Biosci., 2019, 1900257, 1-19. / DOI:10.1002/mabi.201900257

Carbon Nano-Onions as Non-Cytotoxic Carriers for Cellular Uptake of Glycopeptides and Proteins
V. Maffeis, M. d'Amora, R. Brescia, D. Barnes, E. Scanlan and S. Giordani
Nanomaterials, 2019, 9. DOI:10.3390/nano9081069

Diversity-oriented synthesis of blue emissive nitrogen heterocycles and their conjugation with carbon nano-onions
V. Maffeis, L. Moni, D. Di Stefano, S. Giordani and R. Riva
Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering, 2019, 14, 76. DOI:10.1007/s11705-019-1833-0

Carbon Nano-onions: A Valuable Class of Carbon Nanomaterials in Biomedicine
S. Giordani, A. Camisasca and V. Maffeis
Current medicinal chemistry, 2019, 26, 6915. DOI: 10.2174/0929867326666181126113957

Photocatalytic Initiation of Radical Thiol−ene Reactions Using Carbon-Bi₂O₃ Nanocomposites
V. Maffeis, R. O. McCourt, R. Petracca, O. Laethem, A. Camisasca, P. E. Colavita, S. Giordani and E. M. Scanlan
ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2018, 1, 4120. DOI:10.1021/acsanm.8b00870

Endohedral fullerenes: Synthesis, isolation, mono- and bis-functionalization
M. R. Cerón, V. Maffeis, S. Stevenson and L. Echegoyen
Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2017, 468, 16. DOI:10.1016/j.ica.2017.03.040

Highly surface functionalized carbon nano-onions for bright light bioimaging
M. Frasconi, V. Maffeis, J. Bartelmess, L. Echegoyen and S. Giordani
Methods Appl Fluoresc, 2015, 3, 044005. DOI:10.1088/2050-6120/3/4/044005