About me

Chiara got her PhD in Molecular Medicine in Milan in 2009 and, after six years in Copenhagen as a post-doctoral fellow working on “functional proteomics”, Chiara started her own group as a Wellcome Trust-funded fellow at The University of Manchester in 2016. She became Principal Investigator at the Manchester Breast Centre in 2021. Chiara was a visiting scientist at the University of Utrecht in summer 2022 and got promoted to Senior Research fellow in 2022. Chiara will move to the Danish Technical University, DTU Bioengineering, in July 2023 as Associate Professor, while keeping an honorary position as Senior Fellow at the University of Manchester.

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July 2023 > today

Associate Professor, DTU Bioengineering, Denmark

Honorary Senior Research fellow, University of Manchester

September 2022 > June 2023

Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester

May 2022 > September 2022

Visiting scientist at the University of Utrecht!

September 2021 > June 2023

Principal Investigator,

Manchester Breast Centre

March 2016 > September 2022

Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Research Fellow

Division of Molecular&Cellular Function, School of Biological Sciences, FBMH, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

February 2013 > February 2016

Senior Postdoctoral Fellow

Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research (NNF-CPR), University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Group of Prof. J.V. Olsen

January 2010 > January 2013

Marie Curie Intra European (IEF) and EMBO Long Term Postdoctoral Fellow

Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research (NNF-CPR), University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Group of Prof. J.V. Olsen

September 2009 > December 2009

Postdoctoral fellow

FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology (IFOM) and European Institute of Oncology (IEO), Milan, Italy

Group of Dr. U. Cavallaro

February 2005 > April 2009

PhD student at SEMM (European School of Molecular Medicine), FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology (IFOM) and European Institute of Oncology (IEO), Milan, Italy

Supervisors:

  • Dr. U. Cavallaro
  • Prof. G. Christofori (University of Basel, Switzerland)
October 1998 > April 2004

Master Degree in Industrial Biotechnology

University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Teaching and Academic Activities

2023 – present editorial board Science Signalling

2022 – present editorial board Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology – Signalling

2022- 2023 Member of the Biotechnology Beacon board

2017-present  Junior Academic Lead, Bio-MS Facility

2016-2023  Lecturer at the ‘Cellular Signalling’ course for 3rd year students, and of ‘Omics’ course for 2nd year students, FBMH

2016-2021  Founder of the Fellows Forum andrRepresentative of Non-Clinical Fellows in FBMH

2016-2019  Member of Cellular and Developmental Systems Domain Steering Group

2016-present  Member of the British Society for Cell Biology (BSCB) and of the British Society for Proteomics Research (BSPR)

2014- 2016  Co-founder of SPA (Student and Post-doc Association) at NNF-CPR