I’m a “founder-type” PhD student with 4 years of experience in Boston, Prague, Cambridge, Stockholm and Copenhagen.
I strive to get ambitious results in the ageing and longevity field, ultimately trying to catalyse a pivotal change in how we experience our journey on this flying grain of sand. Currently, I'm fostering my biomedical research skills in world-leading research groups while also learning about anything that could prevent diseases and optimize human health from the best sources there are.
My core values: ambition, curiosity, stoicism, morality, assertiveness, growth mindset, grit and antifragility.
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Massachussets General Hospital, Prof Liron Bar-Peled
📅 Feb 2025 - Present, full time
— Drug discovery project collaboration
The main skills learned during the period are:
IP-MS
Western Blot
Mutagenesis
SAR screening
📅 Jun 2025 - Present, part-time
LifeX consistently ranks among the top three most-listened-to health and medicine podcasts in Italy. Thanks to my academic connections, I bring the voices of leading longevity researchers and scientists from around the world to the Italian audience.
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Dr David M. Sabatini
📅 Jun 2024 - Present, full time
— Involved in a multi-centre drug discovery project aiming at finding pro-longevity, caloric restriction mimicking small molecules, acting on nutrient sensing upstream regulators of mTORC1.
The main skills learned during the period are:
Plasmid design, cloning and purification
PyMol, ChimeraX
Complex protein purification via AKTA
high-throughput screening with automations
Western blotting
HEK293, U2OS, HeLa cell culture
Immuno-Precipitation
Immuno-fluorescent assays
Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Prof. Sir Stephen O’Rahilly
📅 Sep 2023 - Jun 2024 (9 months), full time
— For my master's I conducted the experiments on a project investigating the transcriptional regulation of two novel hormone-like hepatokines with a focus on the integrated stress response pathway. I was responsible of planning complex cell experiments and get qPCR data aimed at delineating the response of hepatocytes to several drugs and inhibitors acting on this pathway. (soon to be published)
The main skills learned during the period are:
HuH7, HepG2, iPSC cell lines culturing
qPCR
Basic R programming
RNA Extraction from cells
Data handling and analysis (Excel, Prism)
Manuscript writing
Academia unrelated (click the triangle to expand)