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| Membership Number: | 5273 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pl219 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0540-5053 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 - present Professor of Computational Biology, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2013 - 2018 Reader Computational Biology, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2003 - 2007 Lecturer in Bioinformatics Algorithms at the Computer Laboratory, and affiliated teaching staff at the Centre for Computational Biology, University of Cambridge
- 2007 - 2017 Senior lecturer in Bioinformatics Algorithms at the Computer Laboratory, and affiliated teaching staff at the Centre for
- 2003 Associate Professor of Genetics University of Teramo (Italy)
- 2002 Research associate at the European Bioinformatics Institute
- 1998 - 2001 Research Associate, Department of Genetics and Department of Zoology , University of Cambridge (Group leader Dr Nick Goldman); Project: Mathematical modeling of sequence evolution and protein structure prediction
- 1998 Visiting Professor in Bioinformatics. University “Statale” of Milano
- 1995 - 1997 Research Associate University of Southampton, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Computational biology
- Bioinformatics
- Machine learning
- Deep learning
- Complex networks
Honours and Awards
- 2018 BITS Award, Bioinformatics Italian Society - Torino
- 2017 Visiting Professorship University of Padova (Italy)
- 2016 BYRA first prize at ISEM (The International Society for Ecological Modelling Global Conference) and the MCE (Modelling Complex Ecological Dynamics) 2016 Award second prize (for the research described in the paper “Bioaccumulation modelling and sensitivity analysis for discovering key players in contaminated food webs: The case study of PCBs in the Adriatic Sea”.
- 2013 - 2015 Lagrange Fellowship (ISI, Universita' Piemonte Orientale)
- 11/2011 Award from the European Commission (sponsored by ERCIM) for the "Methodological bridges for complex systems" (with E. Merelli and N. Paoletti) at the FET 11, 2011 - Future and Emerging Technologies Conference ('Science Beyond Fiction')' conference - Budapest.
