"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
Professional experiences
09.2013–06.2017
SNF Postdoctoral fellow at Universität Zürich
01.2013–08.2013
Postdoc at Università Vita-Salute S. Raffaele
01.2009–12.2012
PhD student at Università Vita–Salute S. Raffaele PhD student at the Open University
03.2008–12.2008
Scientist at Università degli Studi di Milano – Bicocca
11.2006–02.2008
Junior Scientist at Università degli Studi di Milano
Education
2009–2012: PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology
2003–2006: Collegio di Milano
2004–2006: Master's Degree in Biology
2001–2004: Bachelor's Degree in Biology
2001–2004: High school degree (Maturità Scientifica)
Skills
Lab Management
Scientific Writing
Molecular Biology
Biochemistry
Biophysics
Microbiology
Cell Biology
Computational Chemistry
Programming
DNA and RNA extraction, gene cloning, site–directed mutagenesis, PCR, bacterial transformation, transfection
protein purification, chromatography, Western Blot, pull–down assays, enzyme assays
protein–ligand binding assays (ITC, DSF, TR–FRET, AlphaScreen assay), protein NMR spectroscopy
Ames MPF
stem and cancer cell culture, cell proliferation assays, immunofluorescence, flow cytometry, XenoScreen assay
molecular docking, Molecular Dynamics
Bash, Python
Certificates
edX courses:
- Data Science Orientation (Microsoft)
- Data Science: R Basic (HarvardX)
- Data Science: Visualization (HarvardX)
- Data Science: Probability (HarvardX)
Lab safety courses:
- Biosafety Officer (BSO) of Safety Level 1 (FOEN, b-safe Ltd.)
- Autoclaves and Waste Disposal (FOEN, b-safe Ltd.)
ISO training:
- ISO 9001 2015 (Xenometrix AG)
Languages
English
German
Italian
Greek
excellent
intermediate
native speaker
native speaker
FCE (Feb 2000)
Some of the achievements I am proud of in my past jobs
at
Xenometrix
• lab management (microbiology and cell biology laboratories)
• project management for interdisciplinary collaborative efforts
• development of assays
• drafting of a scientific manuscript (1 publication) and documents
• proactive mentoring and coordination of 2 lab technicians
• invited speaker at international conferences and meetings
in the Caflisch
group
• lab management (biochemistry and cell biology laboratories)
• set up of a cell biology laboratory
• project management for interdisciplinary collaborative efforts
• proactive recruitment, mentoring and coordination of 5 trainees and 5 undergraduate students
• drafting of scientific manuscripts (13 publications) and grant proposals (raising >370,000 CHF)
• invited speaker at international conferences
• lectures to biology, chemistry, biochemistry and medical students
• identification and characterization of structure–based protein–protein interaction and enzyme inhibitors
in the Musco
group
• project management for interdisciplinary efforts
• establishment of biochemical and biophysical assays
• development of a user–friendly suite of scripts streamlining free energy calculations (GMXPBSA)
• development of a user–friendly R package for the statistical analysis (muma)
• drafting of scientific manuscripts (8 publications) and grant proposals (raising >54,000 EUR)
• organization of international PhD meetings
• in silico and in vitro investigation of protein–protein and protein–peptide interactions
in the Cattaneo group
• drafting of scientific manuscripts (2 publications) and grant proposals (raising >10,000 EUR)
• lectures to biology and biotechnology students
• improvement of the protocol converting embryonic stem–derived murine Neural Stem cells into mature neurons
• establishment and implementation of genome editing by means of transposons and clonal isolation