Calabria

After graduation, I embarked on an international experience in which I acquired knowledge of the main foreign languages ​​and occupied several job positions as sales executive (in the industrial, hospitality, logistics) and customer care specialist (e-commerce fashion sector) where I did social media and digital training in a data-driven reality before returning to Italy for my latest work experience as a digital marketing strategist for a company operating in the workwear sector. From the analysis both of the customers and of the results of the advertising campaigns, I developed a passion for data and I decided to increase knowledge and specialize and to become expert in the Big Data field.

I graduated in Experimental Psychology at the University of Florence and obtained my PhD in Basic Neuroscience at the University of Pisa. During my PhD I studied cortical plasticity and visual system development, using electrophysiology and functional imaging. Currently I hold a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute of Neuroscience, CNR (Pisa) and I am working on rare diseases of the nervous system using animal models. Throughout my stydies I became passionate in developing new hardware and software tools for functional microscopy, data analysis and machine learning. For this reason I decided to enroll this master and acquire the specific skills to extend and improve my knowledge in the fields of computer and data science.

I studied at the University of Siena (BA, MPhil), where I also received my PhD in Cultural Anthropology in 2012. Between 2007 and 2013 I carried out three fieldwork periods (in total seventeen months) in Nicosia (Cyprus). This experience allowed me to start my collaboration with Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, a think tank I have been working for as a correspondent since 2011. From 2013 to February 2017 I worked at the University of Catanzaro as a postdoc fellow in sociology of health and adjunct professor of social and medical anthropology. I spent part of my postdoc at the University of Oxford (Department of Social Policy and Intervention). My interest for the analysis of big data and the decision to apply for this master grew out of my persuasion that we can properly understand and operate within our societies only if we face and make the most of the digital dimension of our existence.

From Crotone to Pisa, my path touched different cities where I had the opportunity to make different experiences, all connected by the passion for marketing research and data analysis. I firstly graduated in Economics & Management in Parma and moved to Turin to attend a first level master in Management. I obtained a Master Degree in Marketing Management with a thesis on brand equity measurement models and moved right away to Malta, where I worked as financial consultant for about one year. Once back to Italy, I had an experience working in Marketing and Business Planning office for Cariparma, in La Spezia. I decided to attend this Master in Big Data to integrate my knowledge of analysis software as SPSS and R with data mining and machine learning techniques as well as python and SQL programming languages.

In July of 2014 he obtained a Master's Degree in Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at the University of Florence with 110/110 cum Laude.He plays a thesis on the study of the molecular mechanisms involved in the process of carcinogenesis of colorectal cancer (familial adenomatous polyposis) analyzing the gene expression profile of transgenic rats used as a study model. While at university, he follows a training course at the Biophysics Laboratory of the Department of Biochemistry where he continued his studies on protein folding mechanisms, structural analysis of proteins and protein - protein interaction systems. A training very focused in the laboratory practice allows him to use various bioinformatics and biophysical techniques oriented on Big Data analysis (e.g. DNA - microarray, confocal microscopy), here comes his interest in the study of the Big Data .