Academia

I’m a Biochemist with a strong biophysical background and I'm trained as a computational and structural biologist - although my academic background has a strong biomedical and biomolecular focus. My main research interests lie at the intersection of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Bioinformatics, with a particular focus on:

• Proteins and antibodies structure, folding and interactions.

• Computational modeling and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of proteins.

B.Sc. in Biotechnologies

From October 2020 to December 2023 I pursued a Bachelor's in Biotechnologies at Sapienza University. The Bachelor's path had a strong focus on biomolecular, medical and pharmaceutical disciplines, but personal interests led me to further explore chemistry by following several elective courses from the Chemistry department.

M.Sc. in Biochemistry

Since October 2023, I have been enrolled in the Master’s program in Biochemistry at Sapienza University, with a strong focus on Structural Biology, Computational Biology, and Biophysics. I gained hands-on experience in Structural Biology during an Erasmus+ Traineeship at the Institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and in  Computational Biology during my collaboration with the Structural Bioinformatics Group and my MSc thesis internship. As for Biophysics, I had the opportunity to explore it further by taking several elective courses from the Physics of Biosystems Master's program at Sapienza.

During my Erasmus+ stay in Prague at the BIOCEV research center, I worked in the Structure and Function of Biomolecules lab under Jan Dohnálek. My project focused on purifying, characterizing, and crystallizing the SmNuc1 nuclease from Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, and trying to “trap” intermediate ligand-bound conformations by quickly soaking crystals in c-di-GMP solutions.

Since October 2024, I’ve been collaborating with Alessandro Paiardini’s Structural Bioinformatics Group at Sapienza University, working alongside PhD student Sara Giordani. The project involves phylogenetic and structural analysis of inner mitochondrial membrane transporters in the SLC25A family, as well as molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of the human enzyme DOPA decarboxylase. Find out more about the project on my GitHub profile!

Since June 2024, I’ve also been doing my training and MSc thesis work in Computational Biophysics at IIT’s Center for Life Nano- & Neuro-Science, under the supervision of Edoardo Milanetti.

Since february 2025, I collaborate with the haematology department of Tor Vergata Hospital as data manager.

P.S. If you spot any mistakes, inaccuracies, missing attributions, or anything else that needs correcting in what I’ve written, please feel free to reach out to me via email.