Filippo Piccinini , PhD

Filippo Piccinini completed with the maximum score (i.e. 110 Cum Laude) his Bachelor as well as his Master degree in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Bologna (Italy). Immediately after the Master graduation, in 2009, he won a PhD ministry scholarship in Informatics. He his Doctorate in a timely manner and published 4 journal articles and 7 conference proceedings during the 3 years of his PhD studies. He won several awards for the quality of his thesis (e.g. the Mario Pasquini award for the best graduated student of the year) and other merits. Hecreated a strong network of international collaborators and his ideas were supported by grants from international institutions (e.g. EMBO, FEBS, EACR, NEUBIAS, UICC). His main research fields are: “Microscopy”, “Artificial Intelligence”, “Image Processing”, “Big Data Analysis”, and “In Vitro 3D Models”. Today he has around 50 articles published in scientific journals, including articles in Nature Methods and Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. Currently, he is working as a Research Fellow at the cancer hospital “IRCCS Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori (IRST) Dino Amadori" (Meldola, Italy) and as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Bologna, where he teaches several courses in Informatics. The full List of Publications and the entire Curriculum Vitae is available at: www.filippopiccinini.it