I was born and raised in Milano, Italy. Strongly attached to my (wonderful) family, dad mum and my sister Valentina, I attended high school and university studies in Milano. Other than Milano, my geographical landmarks are the Alta Val di Susa and the Colli Tortonesi in Piedmont, Britanny (France) due to a certain number of king-Arthur-related holidays still cleary alive in my memory, Umbria, Rome and United States.
While Bruce Springsteen songs and lyrics gave me a first insight into the english language I experienced some summer time in UK when in high school, and in the US when an undergraduate.
My first years as an undergrad were spent studying civil engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, but I found
my way in biology when later I turned to the program of Biological Sciences at
the Università degli Studi di Milano.
Later I joined the department of Biochemistry and General Phisiology at the University of Milano under the leading of the always excellent dr. Coccetti, and took my MS in biological sciences two years later at a ten-days-distance to the beginning of the new millennium. Just in time...
Freshly graduated I joined the department of Biotechnology and Biosciences at the Università di Milano-Bicocca in the lab of dr. Alberghina. Bicocca was the place in which I put quite a considerable amount of work and hope; there I met the new breed of young biotechnology students and reseachers, learned a lot and obtained the doctoral degree in Biotechnology.
After five years in Bicocca spent as a graduate student first and a post doc then, I moved in late fall 2005 to the University of Washington in Seattle, USA and I joined Ted Young's lab at the department of Biochemistry with a senior fellow position working on transcriptional regulation of glucose repressed genes in budding yeast.
While in the USA I contributed to the birth of the Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation (Issnaf) working with the enthusiastic founders, italian scientists in the US and with the Italian Embassy in Washington DC. I'm currently working on a social science web project called MaRE and I recently found my way back to Italy.
I am the uncle, namely the "zio d'ammerica", of three beautiful still innocent creatures named Noah, Tessa and Zaccaria.