November 2023 – present: Senior assistant Professor (Ricercatore a tempo determinato tipo b, RTDb) at the Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna;
January 2019 – present: Neurologist - Autoimmune Neurology clinic at IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, Bologna, Italy;
Responsible of the Neuroimmunology Lab of the Programma di Patologia Neuromuscolare e Neuroimmunologia (Head Prof. Vincenzo Donadio)
2023 - National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor in Neurology (MEDS/12 previous 06/D6)
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
February 2022 – November 2023: Junior Assistant professor (Ricercatore a tempo determinato tipo A) at the Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna;
Neurologist (Neuroimmunology clinic) at the IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna.
October 2018 – January 2022: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna; Laboratory of Neuromuscular disorders and Neuroimmunology
ACADEMIC DEGREE
19th April 2019 – PhD in Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy
Thesis: “Antibodies against neuronal surface proteins in central nervous system disorders”
Supervisors: Prof. Rocco Liguori and Prof. Angela Vincent
11th July 2016 – Neurologist title, final mark 110/110 cum laude, University of Bologna, Italy
Thesis: “Screening for antibodies in narcolepsy”. Supervisor: Prof. Rocco Liguori
July 2009 – board to medical practice
18th February 2009 – MD Degree, final mark 110/110 cum laude, University of Bologna, Italy
Thesis: “Morpho-functional study of small nerve fibres in primary dysautonomia”.
Supervisor: Prof. Pasquale Montagna
FELLOWSHIPS and FELLOWSHIP GRANTS
March 2015 – December 2018: Honorary Research Fellow at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford.
June 2015 – June 2016: research fellowship grant for a scientific fellowship on the project “Search for autoantibodies in Narcolepsy with cataplexy patients” founded by the European Academy of Neurology at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, UK
June 2011- July 2016: Residency in Neurology, University of Bologna, Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences.
May – June 2013: Scholarship grant for the participation to the Department to Department Cooperation Programme (founded by the European Federation of Neurological Society) at the Institute of Genetic Medicine (Chef Prof. Patrick F. Chinnery), Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
September 2010 – April 2011: fellowship grant from the Department of Neurological Sciences of Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna for a study entitled “Pattern of progression and prognostic predictors of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis”. Role: patient selection, inclusion and follow up; clinical data collection. PI: Professor Rocco Liguori
April 2008- May 2011: Internship in Neurology, Department of Neurological Sciences, University of Bologna.
September 2006 - February 2007: Erasmus Program scholarship grant, Hopital Saint-André Pellegrin, Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux Cedex, France.
