I am a molecular biologist by training, and my current research focuses on the analysis of clinical data to unveil molecular mechanisms of heart disease. As lead of the “Computational Systems Medicine” group at the Universitätsmedizin Mainz, funded by the BMBM research core DIASyM, my research uses machine learning methods to analyze multi-OMICs data generated by proteomics, lipidomics, and metabolomics to discover mechanisms of heart failure onset and progression in a deeply phenotyped heart failure cohort of ~3K individuals. I believe that my interest in computational methods in molecular and clinical settings, align well with the mission of the IQCB.

Positions held 

Since 2022     
Junior Professor for Computer-Assisted Systems Medicine (W1, Tenure-Track), CTH, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

2021 - 2022     
Senior PostDoc and Lecturer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

2016 - 2020     
PostDoc and Lecturer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

2015 - 2016     
PostDoc, Yale University, USA

Education

2015    
PhD, Pathobiology and Translational Medicine, New York University, USA

2010     
MSc in Molecular Biology, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy

2009     
MSc in Molecular Biology, Universität Pisa, Italy

2007     
BSc in Molecular and Cellular Biology, Scuola Normale Superiore und Universität Pisa, Italy