Junior Professor (CPJ)

2025 - now: Junior Professor (CPJ) at Université Paris-Saclay, France. Research unit: BioCIS, UMR 8076 CNRS. Research field: PROTACs targeting "undruggable" proteins. 2024 - 2025: Post-Doc researcher at Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE), MMDD Lab, supervisor: Prof. Giulio Rastelli. Field of research: small molecules as inhbitors of tau aggregation. Dual inhibitors of HDAC6/Hsp90. 2023 - 2024: Post-Doc researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB), ORGC group (supervisor: Prof Steven Ballet). Field of research: protein-protein interactions involved in pancreatic cancer. 2020 - 2023: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Innovative Training Networks project "Tuning Tubulin Dynamics and Interactions to Face Neurotoxicity: a Multidisciplinary Approach for Training and Research" (TubInTrain). PhD student at University of Paris-Saclay and University of Osnabruck (Supervisors: Prof. Sandrine Ongeri and Prof. Roland Brandt). Fields of research: Inducing β-hairpin and α-helix folding in peptides. Design, synthesis and evaluation of α-synuclein and tau aggregation inhibitors 2018 - 2019: Erasmus+ Scholarship in Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (Supervisor: Dr. Stephane Gerard). Field of research: development of phopshodiesterase inhibitors for the tratment of pulmonary diseases. 2015 - 2019: 5 years joint-degree in Chemistry and Pharmaceuticals Technologies, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (grade 110/100 cum laude) Overall fields of research: amyloids, aSyn, Tau, microtubules, medicinal chemistry, chemical biology, cell biology, peptide chemistry, cancer, protein-protein interaction