Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC)
He is laureated in Biology and Physics and has a PhD in Physics. He is full Professor at the Bologna University in Applied Physics-Biophysics and is the Director of the Galvani center for Bioinformatics, Biophysics and Biocomplextity. He holds, from the 2000, the position of Associate Professor (Research) at Brown University, Providence RI USA where is doing research within the group of Prof Leon N Cooper on machine learning, neural networks and big data analytics of gene expression. He is coauthor of more than 200 publications on international peer-reviewed journal, and, in total more than 200 printed contributions (9000 citations and H index 51). He has been awarded two International prizes: (Chaos and Complexity prize Blois France 1993, Vice President award Brown University 2003) for innovative research in the field of complex biological systems. He is referee for several journals such as PNAS, Molecular Bio-system, Physical Review and Bioinformatics. He is one of the founder the Italian Society for Systems Biology (SysBioHealth). Recently He obtained a 3 year project from the Programa ciência sem fronteiras – bolsas no país modalidade pesquisador visitante especial titled : SYSAGEOMICS Systems Biology of Aging and Age related diseases by integration of Multiscale Experimental and Computational Methods. He has obtained also a special grant from Brown University for a collaboration with Brasilian Universities of Belo Horizonte on the measurements of circulating nucleic acids. The current research topics are on Machine Learning Big Data and Artificial Intelligence applied to BioMedical data. Statistical Interpretation of AI methods. He is involved in several EU projects (GenoMed4All, SYNTHEMA, METASTRA, SYNTHIA)
