[2017 -]
Research and Innovation Sub-Committee memberTeesside UniversityUK
[2017 -]
Research Ethics Sub-Committee memberTeesside UniversityUK
[2015 -]
Member of the Cambridge Metabolic Network at the University of CambridgeUK
Reviewer for the following funding bodies: MRC Responsive ModeBBSRC Responsive ModeMRC Molecular & Cellular Medicine BoardUSA-Israel Binational Science FoundationDutch Research Council (NWO)Poland National Science CentreNovo Nordisk FoundationBritish Lung Foundation - Asthma UK
Reviewer for the following journals: Nature CommunicationsPNASNature ProtocolsCell SystemsCell ReportsMetabolic EngineeringCell Reports MedicineCurrent Opinion in BiotechnologyPatterns (Cell Press)BioinformaticsPLOS Computational BiologyOncotargetComputer Methods and Programs in BiomedicineBriefings in BioinformaticsiScience (Cell Press)Scientific ReportsComputational and Structural Biotechnology JournalBMC BioinformaticsFrontiers in PhysiologyMetabolic Engineering CommunicationsIEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and BioinformaticsBiotechnology JournalMedicinal Research ReviewsPLOS OneIEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health InformaticsRoyal Society Open ScienceBMC ImmunologyJournal of Biological SystemsMicroorganismsSpringer PlusSpringer LNBI
External examiner: PhD in BiologyUniversity of York2022. PhD in Computer ScienceUniversity of Florence2022. PhD TU/e Eindhoven University of Technology2021. PhD Medical StudiesUniversity of Plymouth2021. MSc (by research) in BiologyUniversity of YorkUK2021. PhD Programme in Computer Science and MathematicsUniversity of BariItaly2019. PhD IAC "M. Picone"National Research CouncilItaly2019. PhD Faculty of EngineeringUniversity of PaviaItaly2019. PhD Department of BiologyUniversity of Florence2018.
Internal examiner: PhD in Computer ScienceTeesside University2019
Chair:
"Artificial Intelligence approaches in neurology" at the 8th European Academy of Neurology Congress - Europe 2022;
"DataOptimizationModel and Evaluation in Machine Learning" at CIBB 2021;
"Computational tools" track: CMSB 2016University of CambridgeUK;
"Multi-omic metabolic models and Statistical Bioinformatics" at CIBB 2015National Research CouncilItaly;
"Artificial ImmuneNeural and Endocrine Systems" track: ECAL 2013;
[Apr 2013] -
I received the MSc diploma from the Institute for Advanced Studies of the University of Cataniawith the thesis "Improving Satisfiability-solvers using Classical and Quantum Statistical Distributions".
[Jan 2012] -
I was awarded the "Anile Prize 2011" for the best thesis at the Department of Mathematics and Computer
Science of the University of Catania.
[Jul 2011] -
I received the MSc degree in Mathematics from the University of Cataniawith the thesis "Phase Transition Detection and Model Checking using Bose—Einstein Condensation in Random Satisfiability Problems"under the supervision of Dr Giuseppe Nicosia.
[Feb 2010] -
I received the BSc diploma from the Institute for Advanced Studies of the University of Cataniawith the thesis "Bose—Einstein Condensation in the k-SAT Problem".
[Jul 2009] -
I received the BSc degree from the University of Cataniawith the thesis "Chaotic Maps and Bose—Einstein Condensation for Algorithms and NP-Complete Problems"under the supervision of Dr Giuseppe Nicosia.
My current research interests include systems biologymulti-objective optimisationorganelle modelscomputation with molecular machinesand statistical-physical approaches in satisfiability problems.
British Computer Society 2019 runner-up prize to BSc student Kanika Saini for our project "Machine learning and multi-omic modelling of lung cancer" at ExpoTees
My project "Multivariate machine learning for lung cancer big data" won the 2016 hackathon for Roy Castle lung cancer foundation held at Sunderland Software Centre and Barclays HeadquartersLondonUK
ABTA Doctoral Researcher Award 2016UCL LondonUK [photo]
Certificate of excellence in research 2015Italy Made Me awardsItalian EmbassyLondonUK
Cambridge Philosophical Society's research studentship 2015