Francesco Casadei is currently a PhD student in Health and Technology, at the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences of the University of Bologna. He also holds the position of Health Researcher at the IRCCS – Institute of Neurological Sciences of Bologna.
He obtained his Bachelor's degree in Physics in 2019 and his Master's degree in Physics, with a specialization in Applied Physics, in 2021, both from the University of Bologna.
His research interests focus on the study and implementation of Federated Learning models applied to oncohematological diseases within the context of the European projects GenoMed4All, Synthema and Synthia. Additionally, he is involved in the study and analysis of data generated through nanopore sequencing from patients with repeat expansion diseases (including DM1, SCA, and ALS).
Work experience
- Health Researcher
20/03/2023 - present
IRCCS - Institute of Neurological Sciences of Bologna
Laboratory of Data Science and Bioinformatics
Education
- PhD in Health and Technology
2021 - present
Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
Project title: AI methods for multi-Omics and Genomics data of onco-haematological diseases generated by EU projects HARMONY, HARMONY-PLUS and GenoMed4All (Supervisors: Prof. Gastone Castellani, Prof. Raffaele Lodi; Co-supervisor: Prof. Luca Morandi)
- Visiting PhD student at Grupo de Aplicaciones del Procesado de Señales (GAPS)
31/03-30/06/2025
Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicacion - Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Tutor: Prof. Juan Parras Moral
- Master's Degree in Physics, curriculum Applied Physics
2019-2021
Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
Thesis title: Statistical Analysis of Genetic and Epigenetic Features in Cancer Cells (Supervisor: Prof. Gastone Castellani; Co-supervisors: Prof. Luca Morandi, Dott.ssa Alessandra Merlotti)
- Bachelor's Degree in Physics
2016-2019
Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
Thesis title: Micro-tomografia applicata allo studio di reperti fossili e paleo-ambienti (Supervisor: Prof.ssa Maria Pia Morigi; Co-supervisors: Prof. Federico Fanti, Dott. Matteo Bettuzzi)
Conferences
- IEEE International Conference on Big Data
15-18/12/2024 Washington D.C., USA
- IV Annual Meeting rete RIN
21-22/11/2024 Genova, Italy
- XXIII International Conference on Mechanics in Medicine and Biology
11-13/09/2024 Bruxelles, Belgium
- I Retreat della Ricerca dell'Emilia - Romagna
4-5/05/2024 Rimini, Italy
- II Annual Meeting rete RIN
15-16/12/2022 Bologna, Italy
- XXII International Conference on Mechanics in Medicine and Biology
19-21/09/2022 Bologna, Italy
Other activities
- Member of the Program Committee of the AIBio 2025 workshop (held in conjunction with ECAI 2025)
- Co-supervisor of the bachelor thesis in Genomics: "Mitochondrial genome retrieval from single cell ATAC-seq and RNA-seq to gain insights into the behaviour of heteroplasmic variants, using MGATK software"
- CINECA High Performance Bioinformatics course, 14-16/12/2022
