2021-present
Associate Professor of Bioinformatics at University of Bologna, Italy.
2018-2021
Senior Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics at University of Bologna, Italy.
2016-2017
Research Scientist at Cancer Research UK, Cambridge University (UK). Projects focused on early detection of Lung Cancer through gene network analysis. Supervisors Prof. Sir Bruce Ponder and Dr. Florian Markowetz
2013-2016
Research Scientist at Columbia University, New York (USA). Projects focused on the analysis of regulatory network activation in cancer patients. Supervisor Prof. Andrea Califano
2012-2013
Research Fellow at Institute of Applied Genomics, Udine (Italy). Projects focused on Transcriptomics, RNA-Seq, DNA-Seq and Allele Specific Expression in crop plants. Supervisor Prof. Michele Morgante
21/11/2011
PhD in Bioinformatics of Molecular Plant Physiology, University of Potsdam (Germany). Thesis title: “Expression-based reverse engineering of Plant Transcriptional Networks”. Thesis supervisor Prof. Dr. Mark Stitt
Final grade magna cum laude
2008-2011
Enrolled in a three-year PhD program at Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Golm (Germany). PhD subject: Bioinformatics and Statistical Learning applied to Plant Biology, within Integrative Carbon Biology group, supervisor Dr. Björn Usadel
27/03/2008
MSc in Bioinformatics, course of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, University of Bologna (Italy). Thesis title: "Construction of a Database to analyze network features of cancer-related genes", supervisor Prof. Francesca Ciccarelli
Final grade 110/110 cum laude
26/10/2004
BSc in Molecular Biology, course of Biotechnology, University of Bologna (Italy). Thesis title: “Analysis of Erb-B1 gene mutations in relation to sensitivity to Iressa in human tumoral cells”, supervisors Prof. Giovanni Capranico and Prof. Giuseppe Giaccone
Final grade 110/110 cum laude
2004
Trainee at Department of Oncology, Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam (Netherlands), supervisor Dr. Josè Antonio Rodriguez
05/07/2001
Scientific High School degree, Liceo “Enrico Fermi”, Bologna
Final grade 100/100 cum laude
