Team

Our lab is based in Trieste, but some members are physically located across other institutes and, in that case, co-supervised with other PIs.

2024 Trieste
Front: Giorgia, Elena R, Elena B, Lucrezia, Katzyarina, Sara, VirginiaBack: Alice, Riccardo, Giovanni, Nicola, Azad, Giulio
Missing: Salvatore, Eriseld

Principal Investigator

Prof. Giulio Caravagna, PhD

Current positions

Associate Professor. Department of Mathematics and Geosciences, University of Trieste.
Core Faculty, PhD program in Applied Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, University of Trieste.
Adjoint Faculty, PhD program in Theoretical and Scientific Data Science, SISSA.
Honorary fellow, The Institute of Cancer Research, UK.

Training:

2017-20, The Institute of Cancer Research, UK. With Andrea Sottoriva.
2015-17, University of Edinburgh, UK. With Guido Sanguinetti.
2011-15, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy. With Giancarlo Mauri and Marco Antoniotti.
2011, PhD in Computer Science (University of Pisa, Italy).
BSc, MSc in Computer Science (University of Pisa, Italy).

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Postdoctoral scientists

Dr. Nicola Calonaci, PhD (since 2021)

Training:

2021. PhD in Physics and Chemistry of Biological Systems (SISSA, Italy).
MSc in Physics (University of Pisa, Italy);
BSc in Physics (University of Pisa, Italy);

Dr. Alice Antonello (2025-28)

AIRC Postdoctoral Fellow (independent fellowship).
Training:

2025 PhD in Applied Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (University of Trieste, Italy)
MSc in Quantitative and Computational Biology (University of Trento, Italy);
BSc in Biotechnology (University of Turin, Italy);

PhD students

Dr. Davide Testa (2025-28)

Applied Data Science & Artificial Intelligence PhD program (University of Trieste, Italy). Co-supervised with Luca Vago (Hospital San Raffaele, Italy).
Training:

Medicine, (University of Pisa, Italy)
Speciality in Immunology (University of Pisa, Italy)

Dr. Elena Buscaroli (2023-26)

Applied Data Science & Artificial Intelligence PhD program (University of Trieste, Italy).
Training:

MSc in Data Science and Scientific Computing (University of Trieste, Italy);
BSc in Genetics (University of Bologna, Italy);

Dr. Katsiaryna Davydzenka (2023-26)

National PhD program in Artificial Intelligence (hosted at SISSA, Italy). Co-supervised with Guido Sanguinetti (SISSA, Italy).
Training:

BSc in Medical ecology (International Sakharov Environmental Institute, Belarus);
MSc in Food and Beverage Innovation and Management (Marche Polytechnic University, Italy);
Master of II level in Bioinformatics and Data Science (University of Siena, Italy);

Dr. Giovanni Santacatterina (2023-26)

Applied Data Science & Artificial Intelligence PhD program (University of Trieste, Italy). Co-supervised with Leonardo Egidi (University of Trieste, Italy).

Training:

MSc in Data Science and Scientific Computing (University of Trieste, Italy);
BSc in Physics (University of Trento, Italy);

Dr. Lucrezia Valeriani (2023-26)

Applied Data Science & Artificial Intelligence PhD program (University of Trieste, Italy). Co-supervised with Alberto Cazzaniga and Alessio Ansuini (Area Science Park).
Training:

MSc in Data Science and Scientific Computing (University of Trieste, Italy);
BSc in Genetics (University of Bologna, Italy);

Dr. Giorgia Gandolfi (2024-27)

Applied Data Science & Artificial Intelligence PhD program (University of Trieste, Italy), sponsored by Hospital San Raffaele, Italy. Co-supervised with Giovanni Tonon (San Raffaele, Italy).
Training:

MSc in Bioinformatics (University of Bologna, Italy);
BSc in Biology (University of Parma, Italy);

Dr. Virginia Gazziero (2024-27)

Applied Data Science & Artificial Intelligence PhD program (University of Trieste, Italy), sponsored by Toscana Life Sciences, Italy. Co-supervised with Anna Kabanova (Toscana Life Sciences, Italy).
Training:

MSc in Functional Genomics (University of Trieste, Italy);
BSc in Biotechnology (University of Insubria, Italy);

Dr. Eriseld Krasniqi (2024-27)

Applied Data Science & Artificial Intelligence PhD program (University of Trieste, Italy), sponsored by Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Italy.
Training:

Degree in Medicine and Surgery (University of Rome II, Italy);
Specialty in Medical Oncology (University of Rome II, Italy)

Dr. Azad Sadr (2024-27)

Applied Data Science & Artificial Intelligence PhD program (University of Trieste, Italy).
Training:

MSc in Industrial Engineering (Wayne State University, USA);
BSc in Industrial Engineering (Kar Higher Education Institute, Iran);

Sara Cocomello (2024)

Applied Data Science & Artificial Intelligence PhD program (University of Trieste, Italy).
Training:

MSc in Data Science and Scientific Computing (University of Trieste, Italy);
BSc in Economics

Elena Rivaroli (2024)

Applied Data Science & Artificial Intelligence PhD program (University of Trieste, Italy).
Training:

MSc in Data Science and Scientific Computing (University of Trieste, Italy);
BSc in Computer Engineering

Master and Bachelor students

Nicola Cortinovis (2025)

Program: MSc Data Science and Scientific Computing.
Co-supervised with Giovanni Santacatterina.

Fabio Zinzone (2025)

Program: MSc in Physics.
Co-supervised with Giorgia Gandolfi.

Andrea Buscema (2025)

Program: MSc Data Science and Scientific Computing.
Co-supervised with Nicola Calonaci.

Visiting PhD students

Over the years, PhD students from other groups visited our group.

Daniel Colic, 2024. PhD Student with Frank Supek at Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain.
Carmen Oroperv, 2024. PhD Student with Søren Besenbacher at the Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Nair Varela Ruoco, 2023. PhD Student with David Posada at the Biomedical Research Centre, Vigo University, Spain.

Pictures

2021 Lab retreat. Passo del Pura.(Riccardo, Salvatore, Alice, Giulio, Nicola)

2022 Lab lunch. Venice.(Riccardo, Giulio, Nicola)

2022 Lab dinner. Trieste.(Nic, Alice, Ric, Elena, Giulio, Salvatore)

2022 Genomics England Research Summit (Giulio)

2022 Lab meeting epiphany (Giulio)

2023 Off work. Alps (Nicola, Riccardo, Giovanni, Lucrezia, Elena, Clara, Lucrezia, Alice)

2023 Project meeting. Bormio. (Lucrezia, Giulio, Salvatore)

Alumni

Riccardo Bergamin (2026). Postdoctoral scientist.
Salvatore Milite (2025). MSc and PhD student in Molecular Medicine, then AI Scientist at GSK Zurich.
Brandon Hastings (2025). Research fellow in AI in Trieste, then PhD student at the University of Nottingham.
Emanuele Ruoppolo (2025). MSc thesis in AI in Trieste, then PhD student at Helmholtz Munich.
Arianna Tasciotti (2025). PhD student in AI in Trieste, then AI Engineer at Leonardo SpA.
Lucrezia Patruno (2024). PhD student in CS in Milan-Bicocca, then postdoc at UCL London.
Lorenzo Taroni (2024). MSc thesis in AI in Trieste, then a software developer.
Abdula Khalus (2024). BSc thesis in AI in Trieste, then a software developer at AI Factory.
Clara Canavese (2023). MSc thesis in Physics in Turin, then PhD student at SISSA.
Elena Buscaroli (2022). MSc thesis in AI in Trieste, then PhD student with us in Trieste.

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