Team founder 

Born in Madrid, where I got my PhD and made research in nonlinear dynamics and taught physics until 2011. Then, I moved to San Raffaele in Milan willing to apply my background to life sciences. Currently I am an associate professor of Physics at San Raffaele University. I also maintain this site and this explains why this is written in first person.

More about me in Google Scholar, Bluesky, and via email.

Junior assistant professor

Erika is a biophysicist from Calabria, where she got her PhD. She was recruited by UniSR as junior assistant professor in 2024 and joined the team. She currently applies her quantitave background to different problems, in particular to understand how cells respond to complex stimuli. 

More information on her work is available on Linkedin, ORCID and Google Scholar.

PhD student 

Sara is a molecular biologist born in Lecco who joined the team as a PhD student in 2023. She is applying her extensive experimental skills in trying to understand how signaling dynamics determines response to therapy in cancer cells. 

More information on her ORCID.

Stable collaborator 

Liam is a molecular biologist born in Portsmouth (UK) who got his PhD in the Chromatin Dynamics Unit, where he is now a multitasking postdoc. He collaborates stably with us using his advanced imaging skills to understand how signals of the inflammatory tumor microenvironment determine immune responses. 

Learn more on his Linkedin and ORCID profiles. 

Undergraduate student

Timothy is a young biotechnology student born in Milan with an unusual interest in physics and mathematics.  He joined us for a stage in 2023 and since then he has visited us regularly and contributed to our research in collaboration with Davide Mazza's lab. His focus is on the mathematical modelling of p53 activity dynamics using simple models. 

You can find him on Linkedin. 

Former PhD student and postdoc

Cise is a talented biotechnologist from Turkey that joined - and hence co-founded- the team in 2017, to perform her PhD under the supervision of Samuel and Marco E. Bianchi. She provided fundamental insights on the role of NF-kB signalling heterogeneity and contributed to the establishment of many of the models now used by the team. Now she shines as a postdoc in Finland, at Katajistos' lab.