VICIDOMINI LAB - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Student - University of Genoa ( Now CEO at Flim Labs )
Andrea Bucci studied Engineering Physics at Politecnico of Milan (Milano, Italy) and subsequently at KTH (Stockholm, Sweden), where he got his M.Sc. in 2019 with a thesis entitled "Extended Parallelization of the Illumination in Optical Nanoscopy". After his graduation, he worked for 6 months as a student intern at KAUST (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).
Since 2020, Andrea is a PhD student under the supervision of Giuseppe Vicidomini in the Molecular Microscopy and Spectroscopy group at the Italian Institute of Technology (Genoa, Italy), working in the research line of the "BrightEyes" ERC project.
His research interests include the design, realization and characterization of optical bioimaging methods with a special focus on smart data analysis and automation. He also has a crush for simulations and analytical models.
Note: Dr. Marco Castello is primarly involved in the realization of the Genoa Instruments Startup.
Eleonora Perego studied Physics at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). She got a M. Sc. in Physics in 2015, after a period at the AMOLF Institute(Amsterdam, the Netherlands), working in the group of "Developmental Biology" of Dr. Jeroen van Zon. In 2020 she obtained a PhD in Biophysics, titled "Studying molecular interaction under flow with fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy", working in the group of "Cellular Biophysics" of Prof. Dr. Sarah Koester (Göttingen, Germany), where she studied with fluorescence spectroscopy methods combined with microfluidic approaches protein-protein interactions.
Since 2021, Eleonora is working at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa (Italy) in the Molecular Microscopy and Spectroscopy research line of Dr. Giuseppe Vicidomini as a post-doctoral researcher. Her research interests include the application of fluorescence spectroscopy methods, such as fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy and fluorescence lifetime imaging, to biological questions, ranging from neuroscience to RNA biology.
Job Titles:
- Research Fellow ( Former Fondazione San Paolo PostDoc Fellow
Francesco Fersini studied Electronics Engineering - Photonics at University of Pavia. He got his M.Sc. in 2019 with a research thesis developed at SciLifeLab (TestaLab group, Stockholm). He worked on a super-resolution microscope RESOLFT set-up (REversible Saturable Optical Linear Fluorescence Transitions), combining with Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy technique (FLIM) to study the kinetics of super fluorescence proteins decay. After the graduation, he joined to Pharmaceutical Company Bracco Imaging in Colleretto Giacosa (Turin, Italy) in the R&D group as Junior Researcher. The work was orientated to design a FLIM time-gated wilde-field microscope and a GUI. The final goal was to provide lifetime information and spatial variations by parametric maps. In November 2020, Francesco obtained a Ph.D. scholarship in "Bioengineering and Robotics" at the University of Genoa, to join the Molecular Microscopy and Spectroscopy group at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT, Genoa, Italy) under the supervision of Dr. Giuseppe Vicidomini. His research interests include the design of super-resolution optical microscopy and characterization of fluorescence lifetime analysis in time and frequency domain.
Job Titles:
- Master Student University of Genoa
Giorgio Tortarolo studied engineering at the Dipartimento di Informatica, Bioingegneria, Robotica e Ingegneria dei Sistemi (DIBRIS) of the University of Genoa. In 2015, he obtained the M.Sc. degree (110/110 cum laude, right of publication) for the thesis titled "Modular integration of a STED imaging system into a custom confocal microscope", later awarded from Società Italiana di Ottica e Fotonica (SIOF). After the graduation, Giorgio joined IIT as a fellow student, under the supervisions of Dr. Giuseppe Vicidomini and Prof. Alberto Diaspro. During the six-months fellowship period, he contributed to develop the Fourier Ring Correlation Analysis, a quantitative criterium to assess the effective spatial resolution of any point-scanning microscopy image. At the end of the fellowship, Giorgio spent two months in Illinois, USA, collaborating with a well established microscopy company, ISS, to introduce in their product line a novel STED microscope.
In November 2016, Giorgio obtained the Ph.D. scholarship in Engineering at the University of Genoa, to join the Molecular Microscopy and Spectroscopy group. He focused on the realisation of an innovative image scanning microscopy (ISM) platform, leveraging the single-photon-avalanche-diode (SPAD) array detector to increase the spatial resolution and the signal to noise ratio of conventional confocal and fluorescence lifetime imaging measurements. Later, he implemented a real-time, feedback based single molecule tracking system based on the SPAD array, to follow individual molecules with high spatio-temporal precision. These projects resulted in his Ph.D. degree, obtained in March 2020 with the thesis "Laser Scanning Microscopy with SPAD Array Detector: Towards a New Class of Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques". After his graduation, Giorgio had the chance to continue his work as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Molecular Microscopy and Spectroscopy group, where he is currently focusing on the single molecule tracking project.
Job Titles:
- Senior Technician ( With Nanoscopy and NIC@IIT )
Mattia Donato studied at the Department of Physics, University of Genoa (Italy) and he obtained the physics bachelor degree (2010) with a thesis about the tests and the characterization of a prototype of compact gamma-camera for Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT).
He studied as exchange student at the Uppsala University (Sweden) and there he did an internship at the Fusion Diagnostics Group of Applied Nuclear Physics, Department Of Physics And Astronomy, where he prepared his thesis. In the 2013, at University of Genoa, he obtained the master degree with a thesis about the characterization of a neutron detector designed for the nuclear fusion experiment Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak (MAST).
He worked four years at the Detector Development Group of the institute European XFEL (Hamburg, Germany) as doctoral candidate. In the 2018, he obtained the doctoral degree in Physics from Hamburg University with a thesis about the commissioning and the characterization of a 4.5 MHz single photon soft X-ray camera (DSSC ladder) designed for European XFEL.
After about a couple of years of work experiences in the Genoa industries, in April 2020 he was employed as technician at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa, Italy, in the Molecular Microscopy and Spectroscopy research line of Dr. Giuseppe Vicidomini.
Job Titles:
- Student - University of Genoa
Sabrina Zappone studied Medical Biotechnologies at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Modena, Italy). In 2019, she moved to University of York (York, UK) for a two-month traineeship. She obtained the M.Sc. in 2020 with a thesis entitled "Structural characterization of tardigrade Small Heat Shock Proteins". After graduation, she joined the Molecular Microscopy and Spectroscopy group at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Genoa, Italy) as a fellow student. Since November 2021, she is a Ph.D. student in Bionanotechnology (Bioengineering and Robotics) at the University of Genoa (Genoa, Italy), in collaboration with IIT and under the supervision of Dr. Giuseppe Vicidomini. Her research interests include the analysis of biomolecular dynamics, especially those involved in human diseases, using super-resolution microscopy tools.
Job Titles:
- Research Fellow ( Now Software Engineer
Sami Koho studied Information Technology in Tampere University of Technology, with dual Majors in Medical Electronics and Embedded Systems, and a minor in Industrial Management. He graduated in 2009, after which he embarked on an academic career. He held different teaching staff positions at University of Turku from 2009 to 2019. In spring 2011, he also decided to do a PhD in super-resolution optical microscopy; the Laboratory of Biophysics, lead by Prof. Pekka Hänninen has a long history in microcopy research. The subject of his thesis, completed in 2016 is "Bioimage informatics in STED super-resolution microscopy". Since 2017 Sami has been with the Molecular Microscopy and Spectorscopy lab at IIT, first as a Post-doctoral researcher and currently as a Marie Curie EF-IF research fellow. His research interests include the design of super-resolution optical microscopy methods, bioimage informatics (image reconstruction, restoration, analysis) and adaptive optics.