Personale docente

University training and degree

Bachelor degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology, Scuola Normale Superiore and University of Pisa (Italy)

Master’s degree in Molecular Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa (Italy)

Master’s degree in Molecular Biology, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy)

Advanced academic qualifications

PhD thesis titled: “Lanosterol modulates innate immune responses” in Pathobiology and Translational Medicine, New York University (USA). Advisors: Profs. Carlos Fernandez-Hernando and Yajaira Suarez

Postgraduate professional career

Postdoc in the laboratory of Profs. Carlos Fernandez-Hernando and Yajaira Suarez, Yale University (USA)

Postdoc and lecturer in the laboratory of Prof. M. Stoffel, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)

Senior postdoc and lecturer in the laboratory of Prof. M. Ristow, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)

Assistant Professor for Computational systems medicine (Tenure-track, W1 professorship), University Medical Center Mainz (Germany)

Group leader of Computational systems medicine, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz – University Medical Center Mainz (Germany)

Assistant Professor in Biochemistry at the University of Parma (Tenure-track, RTDb S.S.D. BIO/10 Biochimica) (Italy)

Early Career Fellow at the Population and Medical Genomics Center at the Human Technopole (Italy)

Professional service, grants and awards

Honorary scholarship at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Italy)

Rotary International district 2050, Ambassadorial Scholarship (25.000$ or ~23.000€)

Vittorio Defendi Fellowship in Pathobiology and Translational Medicine (40.000$ or ~37.000€)

American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship (80.000$ or ~78.000€)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Student Research Fellowship (132.000$ or ~123.000€)

Board member of the Women in Science Association at Yale (WISAY).

Board member of the scientific staff association of the ETH Biology department (AMB).

Grantee of the “Fix-the-Leaky-Pipeline” grant for peer mentoring group of ETH-DBIOL female PhD Students and postdocs (5000CHF or ~5.000€).

Swiss Young Academy honorary membership (5000CHF or ~5.000€)

“PIs of Tomorrow” jury award winner at the Life Science Switzerland Annual Meeting 2021 (1000CHF or ~1.000€)     

Appointed DZHK Scientist (German Center for Heart and Circulation Research) 

Appointed DZHK PI (German Center for Heart and Circulation Research)

Member of the Societa’ Italiana Biochimica

Lead investigator in ETH-funded research project (007724 SEED-11): "Identification of longevity-associated genes through rare genetic variant analysis", ETH Zurich (Switzerland). (ETH Career seed grant: 30.000CHF or ~29.000€)

Lead investigator in Holcim Stiftung funded research project “Bridging biochemistry, genomics and data science to reveal unprecedented roles for cholesterol biosynthesis intermediates”, ETH Zurich (Switzerland). (Holcim Stiftung Stipend: 100.000CHF or ~98.000€)

Lead Investigator of the Computational Systems Medicine group within the DIASYM (DATA-INDEPENDENT ACQUISITION-BASED SYSTEMS MEDICINE for heart failure) research core funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research 

Lead investigator of Human Technopole Early Career Fellowship, research project “Bridging biochemistry, genomics and data science to reveal unprecedented roles for cholesterol biosynthesis intermediates” (1.000.000€ for 5 years)