Experience

Andor Technology

• United Kingdom
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Confocal Application Scientist

  • Sep 2020 - Present

  As a Field Application Scientist, I support the regional sales engineers with customer qualifications, pre-sales demonstrations, and workshops. I assist our current customers with training and support, including troubleshooting instrument issues and helping with experiments and applications. Actively listen to the customers’ opinions, and contributed by sharing personal and customer feedback with the internal teams to improve product development and create marketing material. As a Field Application Scientist, I support the regional sales engineers with customer qualifications, pre-sales demonstrations, and workshops. I assist our current customers with training and support, including troubleshooting instrument issues and helping with experiments and applications. Actively listen to the customers’ opinions, and contributed by sharing personal and customer feedback with the internal teams to improve product development and create marketing material.



University of California, Davis

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Scholar

  • Mar 2015 - Sep 2020

  - Executed experiments in collaboration with Stanford University and the University of Minnesota for a drug development research project to find RyR2 channel inhibitors to prevent arrhythmias and heart failure; - Performed live calcium imaging, STED, FRET, and fluorescent lifetime experiments to study the mechanism of RyR2 channel interaction in heart diseases; - Successfully helped the PI and coordinated with the Financial Office for the purchase of a new $500k lifetime confocal microscope; later responsible for the training of new users and maintenance of the system. - Performed high-resolution imaging and deconvolution to study the anatomy of TH+ retinal cells and the nurophysiology of the optic nerve, resulting in 2 publications and a cover image in the Journal of Neuroscience.



University of Ferrara

• Research
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Graduate Student Researcher

  • Jan 2012 - Feb 2015

  - Planned and executed experiments to study natural and synthetic peptides for intracellular drug delivery; served as the liaison between my lab and collaborators at the University of Pisa, resulting in 2 peer-reviewed publication and 3 presentations at conferences; - Responsible for teaching and mentoring 4 undergraduate students and one international graduate student, helped with lab work, writing, and oral presentations; - Acquired excellent ability to collect, manage, and present information; prepared and presented three poster presentations and three oral presentations at both national and international conferences; - Member of the Organizing Committee in the XXI Congress of the Italian Society of Pure and Applied Biophysics with 500+ participants; managed invitations, accommodations, program outline, and website.



University of Ferrara

• Research
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Graduate Research Fellow

  • Feb 2010 - Jul 2010

  Project: "Electrophysiological Properties of Phototransduction" I applied patch-clamp electrophysiological techniques to the study of the visual phototransduction in vertebrate cones (zebrafish cones). I was in charge of all the steps of the experiment, which included: preparing solutions, collecting retinal tissue and dissociating cells, voltage-clamp recordings, and data analysis. Project: "Electrophysiological Properties of Phototransduction" I applied patch-clamp electrophysiological techniques to the study of the visual phototransduction in vertebrate cones (zebrafish cones). I was in charge of all the steps of the experiment, which included: preparing solutions, collecting retinal tissue and dissociating cells, voltage-clamp recordings, and data analysis.