I am a Medical Doctor and I hold a PhD in Biophysics. I use electrophysiology techniques (field potential, MEA, patch-clamp, sharp electrode recording) to study neuronal electrical activity in health and disease both at the single neuron and at the neuronal network level. I have a strong background in epilepsy research and a keen interest in neural engineering. I have built my multidisciplinary expertise across 15 years of national and international research experience, starting with my Master’s Thesis.
My current research focuses on the development of intelligent biohybrid systems as functional brain repair strategies that are tailored to the individual scale.

I am co-PI in the research line of Enhanced  Regenerative Medicine where I lead the tissue engineering unit. I am a biotechnologist and I hold a PhD in cancer biology.
During my years as Postdoc, my background in cellular and molecular biology has been widen to embrace biomaterials and tissue engineering, applied to different fields including neuroscience.
My research activity focuses on exploiting biomaterials to engineer a bioinspired extracellular matrix the supports cell organization into nervous tissue  and promote brain repair and understanding how the cell-biomaterial interaction influences cell fate.

I am a pharmaceutical chemist and I hold a Ph.D. in Physics and Nanoscience, with a thesis on biomimetic synthesis and characterization of hybrid organic/inorganic materials for controlled drug delivery and imaging.

In the tissue engineering unit my research activities focus on the design of bioinspired and bioactive exrtracellular matrices to support brain tissue regeneration.