Experience

Caltech

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• PHD Student

  • Sep 2021 - Present



Baylor College of Medicine

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Aug 2020 - Sep 2021

  I am currently focusing on the development of a new platform to screen for improved genetically-encoded voltage sensors. On the side, I am trying to identify what are the specific molecular requirements to make common cell lines electrically excitable and capable of exhibiting neuronal-like action potentials. I am currently focusing on the development of a new platform to screen for improved genetically-encoded voltage sensors. On the side, I am trying to identify what are the specific molecular requirements to make common cell lines electrically excitable and capable of exhibiting neuronal-like action potentials.



University of Michigan

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Aug 2019 - Aug 2020

  My project was aimed at the development of a synthetic neuron. I mainly focused on the cell-free expression of different ion channels and opsins in synthetic lipid bilayers, and on their characterization by electrophysiology, fluorescence microscopy and voltage imaging. My project was aimed at the development of a synthetic neuron. I mainly focused on the cell-free expression of different ion channels and opsins in synthetic lipid bilayers, and on their characterization by electrophysiology, fluorescence microscopy and voltage imaging.



Università di Trento

• Italy
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate (MSc) Thesis Intern

  • Feb 2018 - Mar 2019

  I reconstituted the biosynthetic pathways of serotonin and dopamine in vitro, with the aim of integrating them in artificial cells that can communicate with neurons in response to external stimuli. I reconstituted the biosynthetic pathways of serotonin and dopamine in vitro, with the aim of integrating them in artificial cells that can communicate with neurons in response to external stimuli.



Università di Trento

• Italy
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Thesis Intern

  • Apr 2015 - Feb 2016

  I developed a software to control a liquid-handling robotic platform employed in the study of chemotactic protocells. Thanks to Computer Vision techniques, the software can measure the number and size of the protocells, and track their movements as they travel along a chemoattractant gradient. I developed a software to control a liquid-handling robotic platform employed in the study of chemotactic protocells. Thanks to Computer Vision techniques, the software can measure the number and size of the protocells, and track their movements as they travel along a chemoattractant gradient.