A bit of history!

I was born in Milan (Italy) in 1969, moved to a little village on the Italian Riviera at 10, called Bonassola, studied Solid State Physics (with the intention to do MR Physics for translational applications to the medical field) at the University of Pavia and then came to the UK with a COMETT grant for post-graduate students.

I did my PhD at the University of Surrey (Guildford, UK) in MR sequence development under the supervision of Simon Doran and David Gilfoyle on developing fast imaging sequences (BURST) collaborating with the University of Lyon (France), the Nathan Kline Institute (USA) and the Institute of Child Health (ICH).

I joined the NMR Research Unit at the UCL Institute of Neurology in January 1999 as a postdoctoral research fellow sponsored by the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society of the UK. I am still here, now as Professor of MR Physics. As such I continue leading quantitative MRI development on the 3T scanner for MS research.

I love my work especially for the translational aspect of it between technical development and clinical applications. I love the international group of people I work with, including several PostDoctoral Fellows from engineering, Physics and computer Sciences and PhD students supervised in collaboration with colleagues from different disciplines.