Current positions:
Associate professor; tenured, from 2013
University of Rome Sapienza
Dept. Biomedical Sciences, Section of Histology & Medical Embryology Va Scarpa, 16 00161 Rome Italy telephone: +39 06 49 76 65 77
Education:
2000 Doctoral degree in Morphogenetic and Cytological Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy;
School Director: Prof. Mario Molinaro; Thesis Committee: Prof. Gregorio Siracusa (Univ. of Rome 2 Tor Vergata); Prof. Elio Ziparo (Sapienza Univ. of Rome 1); Prof. Massimo De Felici (Univ. of Rome 2 Tor Vergata)
Thesis title: "Vesicle mediated transport leads to membranes homeostasis, restoring the phospholipid pool consumed in signal transduction”
1995 Degree in Biological Sciences summa cum laude
Thesis title: "Effect of vasopressin on myogenic cells in culture: morphological modifications and membrane traffic”, tutor: Prof. Sergio Adamo
Professional experience and in-service training:
2015- 2024 (several years) Visiting professor at the University of Sao Paulo (BRA)
2015 Authorization N° to perform animal research: ethics, well-being and project design; UPMC
2014 Evaluating students; D.R.H - Bureau de la Formation des Personnels UPMC
2012 Learn to teach; D.R.H - Bureau de la Formation des Personnels UPMC
2007 - 2010 Responsible for the laboratory of Transmission Electron Microscopy and Calcium Imaging, DAHFOS–Section of Histology & Medical Embryology, University of Rome
2005 - 2010 Research associate at the Department Histology and Medical Embryology, Sapienza University of Rome
2010 Course of Confocal Microscopy with Leica TCS-SP2
2007 Invited researcher at the Myology Group, UMR S 787 Inserm Université Paris 6 PMC, Paris
2004 Contract Professor of Histology and Embryology, School of Dentistry, Sapienza University of Rome
2000 - 2003 Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY (laboratory of Prof. David Sassoon)
1999 Visiting scholar at the Division of Reproductive Biology, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (laboratory of Prof. Marco Conti)
1996-2000 Graduate student in Cell Science and Morhpogenesis, directed by Prof. Mario Molinaro, at the Department of Histology and Medical Embryology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
1992 - 1995 Undergraduate student in Biological Sciences at the Department of Histology and Medical Embryology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Bibliometrics
Data range 1996 to mid 2021
Product type Number Data Base if appplicable Year/Start End
Papers [international] 62/71 ISI Web of Science/Scopus 1996 2021
Patents [international] 1 Physiactisome Pat # 102018000009235 2018
Relevant author position
(% papers) 47 ISI Web of Science
Personal Impact factor
(2021)* 48/8=6.000 ISI Web of Science
Total Citations 1554/1997 ISI Web of Science/Scopus
Hirsch (H) index 24/24 ISI Web of Science/Scopus
Normalized H index** 1.142
* Individual Impact Factor = Cites in 2021 to my articles published in 2020 and 2019 /Total number of my articles published in 2020 and 2019
** H index on all years divided by the academic seniority (time span from graduation, PhD in 2000 = 21y)