Claudia Bonfio is a Junior Group Leader at the Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires in Strasbourg (FR). She obtained her PhD in Biomolecular Sciences at the University of Trento, IT. As a PhD student, she focused on the synthesis and activity of primitive catalysts on early Earth. During her PhD, she spent research periods abroad as visiting PhD student at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, US) working on the astrochemistry taking place on the early Earth and the emergence of primordial cells. After her PhD, she moved to the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge (UK) as an MSCA Fellow and then to the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge as an 1851 Research Fellow, where she tackled fundamental questions related to the emergence of functional primitive cells. Currently, her group focuses on prebiotic supramolecular chemistry, in particular on interactions between supramolecular structures and biomolecules. Her main scientific goal is to uncover the chemical principles that lead to primitive cells with essential life-like behaviours, by probing the interplay between primitive membranes and functional biomolecules.
