Our team

Francesco Pappalardo
Group Leader

Full Professor at the University of Catania. He was a visiting research scientist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and at the Molecular Immunogenetics Labs, IMGT in Montpellier. His major research area is computational biomedicine, with a special focus on immune system modelling.

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Giulia Russo
PhD

Assistant Professor at the University of Catania. Her interest is focused on computational modeling in biomedical sciences with a particular attention in modeling methodologies at the molecular level.

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Santo Motta
Senior Scientific Advisor

MSc in Physics (University of Catania, 1970) and MSc in Applied Mathematics (University of London, Queen Mary College, 1971). Associate professor of Mathematical Physics (Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania). His present scientific interests are BioMaths, BioComputing and BioInformatics.

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Valentina Di Salvatore
PhD

Post-doc at the University of Catania. Her research activity focuses in particular on the use of specific bioinformatic tools in the data mining process, statistical analysis and interpretation of high throughput genomic data in the field of computational biology.

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Avisa Maleki
PhD candidate

PhD candidate at the University of Catania, MSc in molecular genetics. Her interest is focused on computational biology and vaccine design.

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Elena Crispino
PhD candidate

PhD candidate at the University of Catania, MSc in chemistry and pharmaceutical technology. Her interest is focused on vaccine design (especially in pandemic/emegency situations) and medical devices.

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Nandu Chandran Nair
PostDoc

Postdoc at the University of Catania, PhD in Computer Science. Her interest is focused on computational modeling of biological scenarios.

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Avinita Gautam
PostDoc

Postdoc at the University of Catania, PhD in Applied Mathematics. Her interest is focused on mathematical modeling of biological scenarios.

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Giulia Nicotra
PostDoc

Research assistant at the University of Catania, MSc. in Digital Communication Sciences. Her interest is focused in dissemination, communication and engagement of In Silico Trials community of practice.

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