About me

I trained with Paola Ricciardi-Castagnoli, receiving my Ph.D. in Immunology at the University of Roma-Tor Vergata (Rome, Italy). I then performed postdoctoral training with Francesca Granucci at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy) and with Dr. Jonathan C. Kagan at Boston Children’s Hospital (Boston, USA). I became Assistant Professor at Harvard University, Faculty of Medicine, in 2015 and in 2020 I was promoted to Associate Professor (Boston, USA). Since 2021 I hold the Boston Children’s Hospital Chair in the Field of Immunology at Harvard University, Faculty of Medicine. I am currently Research Faculty and Principal Investigator at Boston Children’s Hospital, Division of Immunology and Division of Gastroenterology (Boston, USA). Since 2020 I hold an Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Award at the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and since 2021 I am a Lloyd J. Old STAR Investigator at the Cancer Research Institute.