Biotechnologist, Biologist, PhD

Healthcare Researcher

• Master Degree in Veterinary Biotechnology at the University of Bologna
• PhD at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bologna
• Master Degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Bologna.

• Licence to practice the Profession Biologist,2012
• Post-graduate course in Biomedical Statistics, 2021

• 2019-Present: Healthcare Researcher at the Department of Rare Skeletal Disorders 
• 2010-2019: Researcher at Medical Genetics Department and CLIBI Laboratory, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna
• 2004-2010: Post-doctoral Fellow at Medical Genetics Department, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna
• 2008-2010: Assistant Professor at University of Bologna for the course “Bioinformatics for Medical Genetics”
• 2003-2007: PhD Student at Medical Genetics Department, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli and University of Bologna
• 2002-2004: Research Fellow at Medical Genetics Department, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Bologna
• 2001: Summer Student at the National Cancer Institute - NIH, Bethesda, MA (USA) supported by a grant of University of Bologna 

Fluent English.

• Very good knowledge on biomedical platforms and tools, on data harmonization and interoperability, on databases and software for management and analyses of genetic data
• Good command on biomedical standards, ontologies and vocabularies
• Experience in modelling and management of IT platforms for data capturing with a particular attention on clinical, genetic and genealogical data in rare diseases
• Knowledge in digital photography and in image processing software (Adobe Photoshop CS series)

• Assistant Professor in ‘Bioinformatics for Medical Genetics’ at University of Bologna
• Staff training and tutoring
• Thesis supervisor

Research Activities

• Coordination and management of Disease Registry
• Natural history studies and genotype-phenotype correlations 
• Development and management of biomedical platform
• Machine Learning studies for personalized medicine
• Writing up of grant proposals for national and international projects
• Support for biobanking activities and in sample data management
• Drafting of ELSI documents, Informed Consent, MTA. etc.

Author of scientific publications on international impacted and activities as scientific reviewer.

Project activities

• WP leader: EuRR-Bone project - European Registry for Rare Bone and Mineral Conditions
• Staff Member of:
• ERN BOND -European Reference Network on Rare Bone Diseases
• EJP-RD - European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases
• Rare2030 - Participatory Foresight in Rare Disease Policy
• 4FRAILTY – PON Sicilia 
• Tecnopolo project
• SUPER: Supercomputing Unified Platform – Emilia-Romagna

Honor and Awards

• Computerworld Honors Program Laureate (Washington DC, June 2010) BioMIMS project
• Smarter Planet Leadership Series (Barcelona, November 2010) for "Pedigree Visualization and Analytics Platform" BioMIMS project.

Disease Registry, Rare Skeletal Conditions, Natural History Study, Genotype-Phenotype Correlation, Data Management, Database, Biobanking, Privacy, Clinical and Molecular Genetics