Experience

IT'IS Foundation
• Switzerland
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Support and Application Engineer

  • Mar 2022 - Present


École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

• Switzerland
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Postdoctoral Researcher in simulation neuroscience, Blue Brain Project

  • Nov 2020 - Oct 2021

  - Led a team scientists and coordinated collaborations with scientific and engineering teams, and external collaborators working in the lab- I continued modeling and simulation-based research in neuroscience

• Ph.D. researcher in simulation neuroscience, Blue Brain Project

  • Nov 2015 - Oct 2020

  - I developed the first large-scale biologically-accurate model of a brain region (thalamus microcircuit). This model consisted of >100.000 detailed neurons and >10 million connections. - I analyzed raw experimental data (time series), performed feature extraction, classification with machine learning techniques, parameter estimation, model fitting and optimizations.- Integration of heterogenous life science data from experiments and the scientific literature, mitigation strategies for missing data.- I performed neuronal network simulations using supercomputing resources and developed code for analyzing the results (Python and R), ensuring reproducibility and easy reuse of the code (git, code documentation)



Università di Pavia

• Italy
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Internship in computational neuroscience

  • Sep 2014 - Sep 2015

  - Computational modelling (in Python + NEURON simulator) of cerebellar neurons - Studied the implications in motor control and speech - Computational modelling (in Python + NEURON simulator) of cerebellar neurons - Studied the implications in motor control and speech



Erasmus MC

• Netherlands
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Internship in in vivo electrophysiology and computational modelling

  • Feb 2014 - Sep 2014

  - Collaboration to in vivo extracellular recordings in cerebellar and inferior olive circuits - Spike sorting with custom software (in Matlab) - Computational modelling (in Matlab) - Collaboration to in vivo extracellular recordings in cerebellar and inferior olive circuits - Spike sorting with custom software (in Matlab) - Computational modelling (in Matlab)

• Part-time employee Erasmus Office

  • Jan 2013 - Jun 2013

• Research Internship in vitro electrophysiology

  • Sep 2012 - Jun 2013

  Research internship in Neurophysiology Lab. Data analysis of in vitro experiments in the entorhinal cortex in rats. Maintenance of lab equipment to perform in vitro patch-clamp experiments. Time series and time-frequency analysis (e.g. FFT, resonance profiles).