Sara De Matteis

Dr. Sara De Matteis is a Full Professor in Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of Turin and an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London's National Heart & Lung Institute. She specializes in occupational lung diseases, asbestos-related malignancies, and the interplay between environmental exposures and genetic factors. Her research focuses on developing web-based exposure assessment tools and identifying biomarkers for early detection of occupational respiratory diseases.

Key projects include the HSE-COPD study within the UK Biobank, analyzing occupational causes of COPD, and the ARRDIA project investigating microRNA biomarkers in asbestos-exposed workers. She teaches epidemiology and occupational health surveillance at the Faculty of Medicine.

• Research Themes: Asbestos-related cancers, occupational asthma, gene-environment interactions, climate change and air pollution.
• Current Projects: ARRDIA biomarker development, Bayesian mapping of hematologic malignancies in Sardinia.
• Grants: Sardinia-Region funding for ARRDIA, UK Biobank cohort studies.

Her publications span occupational health policy, radiation therapy outcomes, and the epidemiology of chronic respiratory conditions. She advocates for workplace safety and climate change mitigation strategies.