Angelo Bifone

Master of Science (MSc) in Physics from the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” a PhD in Physics from Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the Business School of the University of Bologna. My career has encompassed roles in both academia and industry R&D. I started my professional journey at the University of Berkeley in California and subsequently at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, as a Postdoctoral researcher. I served as a Lecturer at the Institute of Cancer Research in the UK from 1996 to 2001, where I attained the status of Teacher at the University of London. Subsequently, I founded and led for nine years the Neuroimaging Department at the Medicines Research Center of Glaxo Smith-Kline, a prominent research-based pharmaceutical company located in Verona, Italy, and Harlow, UK. In 2010, I joined the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, where I assumed roles of increasing responsibility. These positions included serving as the Director of the Center for Nanotechnology Innovation in Pisa and later as the Director of the Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems in Rovereto (Tn). Since 2019, I am Full Professor of Physics as Applied to Medicine and Biology at the University of Torino.