Herchel Smith fellow in the Department of Biohcemistry and Biophysics, University of Cambridge
2019-2022 Postdoctoral researcher, Cicuta lab, University of Cambridge
2015-2020 PhD in Systems Microbiology, Pilizota lab, University of Edinburgh
2014-2015 MPhil in Biological Sciences, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
2011-2014 BSc in Biological Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia, 110/110 cum laude
2022 Herchel Smith postdoctoral fellowship (£160K)
2017,2018,2019 Renny Bequest travel award to attend the EMBO/EMBL symposium (Heidelberg), the Spring
meeting DPG and EPS (Berlin) and the APS March meeting (Boston). (£1.5K total)
2017 Molecular biology fund award to attend the EMBO/EMBL symposium (Heidelberg) (£250)
2015-2019 Cunningham Trust Scholarship, University of Edinburgh (£73K)
2014-2015 Highly Skilled Workforce Scholarship, University of Edinburgh (Declined) (£10K)
2012,2013,2014 University of Perugia tuition fees exemption for merit (re-awarded each year) (1.5K € total)
2012-2013 Erasmus scholarship at University College Cork (2.4K €)
2006,2008 Italian finalist at the International competition for mathematical and logical games
2022 87th Harden Conference: Single-molecule bacteriology II
2022 Quantitative approaches to antimicrobial resistance and microbiology
2021 IOP early-career Research in Biological Physics workshop
2021 EPSRC Physics of Life grant holders meeting
2019 Cambridge Biological and Soft Systems research day
2019 APS March meeting
2018 Spring meeting DPG and EPS
2022 Supervisor and examiner EPSRC sensor CDT Masters project
2020,2022 Microscopy, microfluidics techniques, image analysis: Aske Birkjær Petersen, PhD student
2021 Part III course in biophysics, Department of Physics, Guest lecture
2021 Bacterial culturing, microscopy and microfluidics: Erika Causa, PhD student; Mattia Corigliano,
PhD student; Giorgio Tallarico, Master student.
2021 Roberto Campalastri, Part II (3rd year undergraduate) and Jiayi Xu, graduate student,
summer project supervisor (University of Cambridge)
2021 Sterile techniques and bacterial culturing: Michal Walczak, PhD student
2021 Microscopy and microfluidics techniques: Morten Kals, PhD student
2020-2021 Soma Turi, Part III (4th year undergraduate). Project co-supervisor (with Prof Pietro
Cicuta), University of Cambridge
2015-2019 Molecular biology techniques: Dario Miroli, PhD student; Alex McVey, Postdoc;
Microfluidics: Ekaterina Krasnopeeva, PhD student
2017 Chua Chong Kean, Honours (4th year undergraduate). Project co-supervisor (with Prof
Teuta Pilizota), University of Edinburgh
2017 Demonstrator, Molecular Genetics 3, University of Edinburgh
2021-2022 Organizer of the 2022 Physics of AMR conference
2018 Organizer of the Annual PhD symposium for the Institute of Cell Biology
2017 Section chair at the Annual PhD symposium for the Institute of Cell Biology
2021 Invited speaker at “Coworking Sassuolo”
2020 Scientist at: “I am a scientist, get me out of here”, first weekly winner
2015 Demonstrator at the Cambridge Science Festival
2013 Speaker at the Kenes Centre, Almaty, Kazakhstan in an international formative
project for local physiotherapist and therapists
2021-2022 Coach of the University of Cambridge 2nd Women Basketball team & Hughes Hall college basketball
2019-2022 External member of the Darwin College basketball team
2017-2019 Captain of the University of Edinburgh 1st basketball team
2014-2015 Coach and co-captain of the St Edmund’s College basketball team (University of Cambridge)
Institute of Physics (IOP), Microbiology society and American Physics Society (APS), Division of Biological sciences (DBIO)
Laboratory techniques (CL2) culture of E. coli (both pathogenic and non pathogenic), B. subtilis, S. cerevisiae and S. aureus - flow cytometry - plate readers - protein purification - molecular biology - live microscopy (epifluorescent/confocal) - microfluidics (including soft lithography and laser writer techniques) - 3D printing - Coulter counter - back-focal plane interferometry - spectrometer and fluorimeter - quantitative image analysis Software Python, Matlab, LaTex, LabView, ImageJ, Gimp 2, Inkscape, CAD, Office
2021 - present Diana Fusco, University of Cambridge
2020 - present Lorenzo Di Michele, Imperial College London
2019 - present Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino, IFOM
2019 - present Rosalind Allen, University of Edinburgh
2019 - present Waldemar Vollmer, University of Newcastle
2019 - present Jamie Hobbs, University of Sheffield
2019 - present Simon Foster, University of Sheffield
2019 - 2020 Bianca Sclavi, CNRS
2015 - present Chien-Jung Lo, National Central University
2020 Stefano Pagliara, University of Exeter
2018 - 2020 Terence Hwa, UCSD
2018 - 2020 Jonas Cremer, University of Stanford
2015 - 2019 Fan Bai, Peking University