Education & Training
2005: B.S. in Biomolecular Biotechnologies, University of Bologna, Italy
  • Thesis: Chiron Vaccines, Siena, Italy (PI: Vincenzo Scarlato)
2007: M.S. in Biomolecular Biotechnologies, University of Bologna, Italy
  • Thesis: Max Planck Institute, Goettingen, Germany (PI: Markus Zweckstetter / Christian Griesinger / Stefano Ciurli)
2011: Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland (Thesis co-advisors: Hans-Uwe Simon / Beat Meier)
2011-2016: Postdoc, UCLA, Los Angeles, US (PI: David Eisenberg)

Honors & Awards
2005: Bachelor Degree, cum Laude honors
2006: UNIBO Fellowship for Research Training in a Foreign Country
2006: IAESTE – DAAD fellowship
2007: Master Degree, cum Laude honors
2010: Chip Miller Memorial Junior Research Travel Award
2014: AACR-Millennium Fellowship in Prostate Cancer Research
2015: DGSOM Travel Childcare Award
2015: AACR-Marsha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer Research Scholar-In-Training Award
2015: Hirshberg Foundation Seed Award
2017: Elife Ambassador
2018: Lynda’s Fund Pilot Study Award
2018: Scialog Fellow
2019: ISSNAF / AR-TER Visiting Junior Scientist
2021: Elected to the Board of the Society for Functional Precision Medicine for a second consecutive term

Upcoming Talks & Conferences
2023: SLAS2023 Annual Meeting, San Diego (25th February)

Selected Recent Talks
2019: First Functional Precision Summit, Atlanta (GA), March 30 - Invited Speaker
2019: 9th Global Health Conference: Innovative research, Global Solutions, Miami (FL), May 8 - Invited Speaker
2019: University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy), June 7 - Invited Speaker
2019: Symposium on High-Throughput Screening Technologies at UPenn, Philadelphia (PA), June 27 - Keynote Speaker
2019: Alex Lemonade Stand Foundation Innovation Summit, Philadelphia (PA),  24-27th September - Invited Speaker
2019: Pathology Research Lecture Series (PRLS), University of California San Diego, San Diego (CA), December 9 – Invited Speaker
2020: Inaugural Precision Health Summit, UCLA (6th February), Los Angeles (CA) – Invited Speaker
2020: Research Seminar, CHLA (12th February), Los Angeles (CA) – Invited Speaker
2020: 27th International Molecular Med Tri-Con, Precision Medicine Track (1-4th March), San Francisco (CA) – Invited Speaker
2020: ALSF Virtual Childhood Cancer Lecture (8th May)  – Invited Speaker
2020: UCLA & OIC Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Grand Rounds (2nd September), Los Angeles (CA) - Invited Speaker
2020: PREDiCT 3D Tissue Models Summit (1st October) - Invited Speaker
2020: Tumor Biology Guest Speaker Serie, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami (10th December), Miami (FL) - Invited Speaker
2020: Seminar, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto (17th December), Toronto (Canada) - Invited Speaker
2021: Research Seminar Series, Department of Pediatrics, MD Anderson Cancer Center (12th January), Houston (TX) - Invited Speaker
2021: Tisch Cancer Institute Translational Oncology Seminar Series, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (15th January), New York (NY) - Invited Speaker
2021: Musculoskeletal Research in Progress Seminar series, Michigan Integrative Musculoskeletal Health Core Center (MiMHC), University of Michigan (17th March), Ann Arbor (MI) - Invited Speaker
2021: Jonnson Comprehensive Cancer Center Research Seminar, UCLA (15th April), Los Angeles (CA)  - Invited Speaker
2021: SBP Cancer Center Seminar Series, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (10th May), San Diego (CA) - Invited Speaker
2021: UTH PRISM Series (25th May), San Antonio (TX), Virtual Seminar - Invited Speaker
2021: 2021 AACR Virtual Special Conference on Sarcomas (28th June) - Invited Speaker
2021: Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Foundation (NETRF) Annual Symposium (15th October) – Selected Speaker
2021: Department of Pathology Seminar, University of Colorado (30th December) - Invited Speaker
2022: Broad Stem Cell Center Annual Meeting (28th January), UCLA, Los Angeles (CA) – Invited Speaker
2022: Fifth Annual Bioengineering Research Day at UCLA (11th February) - Plenary Speaker
2022: NCI Genetics Branch Weekly Seminar Series (15th February) – Invited Speaker
2022: CCRI Seminar Series, St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute (17th February), Vienna (Austria) – Invited Speaker
2022: Weill Cornell’s Institute for Precision Medicine Seminar Series (3rd March) – Invited Speaker
2022: AACR Annual Meeting, Advances in Organ Site Research: Models for Rare Cancers (12th April), New Orleans (LA) – Invited Speaker
2022: Innovations in Disease Modeling Online Symposium (27th April), Virtual Seminar – Invited Speaker