2008 to date Associate Professor of Genetics at “Sapienza” University of Rome, Department of Biology and Biotechnologies, C. Darwin. 2003-2008 Assistant Professor of Genetics at “Sapienza" University of Rome, Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, with the “Rientro dei cervelli” program by Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (MIUR). 2002 Research fellow at “Sapienza" University of Rome, Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology. 2001 Research associate position at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Department of Biomedical Genetics (USA, NY). 1998 -2001 Long Term EMBO postdoctoral fellow, EMBL/Heidelberg (Germany), Department of Developmental Biology. 1994-1997 PhD fellow, “Sapienza" University of Rome, Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology/IRBM P. Angeletti-Merck laboratories, Department of Genetics. 1993 Degree in Biology, summa cum laude, at “Sapienza" University of Rome.

DNA repair and telomeres stability Drosophila melanogaster as model of human myotonic dystrophies Genetic control of mitosis