My primary research interest is computational electrophysiology. As part of the PreDiCT project, we are looking at developing multi-scale computational models of the rabbit and human heart for evaluation of drug cardiotoxicity.
I graduated from Politecnico di Milano Technical University (MIlan, Italy) with a degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2002. Later the same year, I joined AstraTech Italy, a company in the AstraZeneca group, as product specialist in the dental implant division. In 2004, I moved to Singapore, where, four years later, I obtained my PhD in Bioengineering from the National University of Singapore. In my thesis, supervised by Dr Martin Buist at the Computational bioenginneering laboratory, we developed a multi-scale computational modelling framework of gastric electrophysiology, including novel cellular models of a gastric smooth muscle cell and interstitial cells of Cajal. In 2008, I joined Oxford University (UK) to work as a post-doctoral researcher within the PreDiCT project.
