Positions
2025–current: Head of the Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Lab at Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Italy.
2011–2025: Head of the Bioinformatics Lab at IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, Italy.
2023–2025: Research affiliate at IRCCS Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Italy
2010–2011: Post-Doc researcher at the Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology - CIBIO Department of University of Trento, Italy
2008–2010: Post-Doc researcher at the University of Trento – Microsoft Research Centre for Computational and Systems Biology (COSBI), Italy
Degrees
2008: Ph.D., Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro (UNICZ), Catanzaro, Italy
2004: M.Sc., Computer Science Engineering, University of Calabria (UNICAL), Rende, Italy
PhD Thesis: “Fundamentals of modelling and parallel simulation of reactive systems”.
Research interests
- Computational Systems Biology
- Variant Effect Prediction (VEP)
- AI methods for Biology and Medicine
- Network biology
- Big-data, OMICS & Scientific programming
Publications
Peer-reviewed publications (>190 from 2003 to 2025) include JAMA, Lancet Neurology, Nature Communications, Cancer Research, Hepatology, Briefings in Bioinformatics, and others.
A full list is available
here.
Editorial roles
Member of the Editorial Board of 10 journals, including:
- Frontiers in Genetics | Computational Genomics | Network Bioinformatics
- Briefings in Bioinformatics
- npj Scientific Reports
- npj Aging
- PLOS Complex Systems
- International Journal of Biological Markers
- Cancers
Teaching
2024-2024: Adjunct professor, “BigData”, Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro
2022-2024: Adjunct professor, “Corso di Alta Formazione in Bioinformatica” (Computational Genomics), Sapienza University of Rome
2019-2020: Adjunct professor, “Computational Systems Biology”, University Tor Vergata, Rome
2015-2016: Adjunct professor, “Biomedical informatics”, University RomaTre, Rome
Other Experience and Professional Memberships
2007–current: Senior member of the Bioinformatics Italian Society (B.IT.S.)
2011–2015: IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Simulation (TCSIM) Vice Chair for Europe
2010–2022: Steering committee member of the Computational Methods for Systems Biology (CMSB) community
2009: Visiting Scientist, Microsoft Research at Cambridge, UK