Curriculum Vitae

Career

• January 2022
  Tenure Track Assistant Professor (“Ricercatore a Tempo Determinato di tipo B” RTD-B) at the University of Milan (Department of Chemistry)
• January 2021
  Research Associate (“Ricercatore a Tempo Determinato di tipo A” RTD-A) at the University of Milan (Department of Chemistry)
• March 2018-December 2020
  Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Milan (supervisor: Prof. Cesare Gennari)
• January 2017-February 2018
  Postdoctoral Fellow at ETH Zurich (Switzerland, supervisor: Prof. Dario Neri)
• August 2016-December 2016
  Research Scientist at Philochem AG (Otelfingen, Switzerland)
• November 2015-July 2016
  Postdoctoral Fellow at ETH Zurich (Switzerland, supervisor: Prof. Dario Neri)

Education

• November 2012-December 2015
  PhD in Industrial Chemistry
  (PhD advisor: Prof. Cesare Gennari).
  Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan (Italy).
  Title of the thesis: “Tumor Targeting via Integrin Ligands: Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of RGD Peptidomimetic-Drug Conjugates”
• October 2012
  Master Degree in Chemistry
  (Master advisor: Prof. Cesare Gennari).
  Full marks (110/110).
  Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan (Italy).
  Title of the thesis: “Synthesis of cyclic peptidomimetics containing the isoDGR sequence as new potent integrin ligands”

Current research interests

• Design and synthesis of novel drug delivery systems.
• Synthesis of small molecule ligands for clinically-relevant protein targets.