I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomolecular Sciences at University of Urbino. I graduated in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technologies at the University of Calabria, Italy, in 2010, and obtained a Ph.D. in Neuroscience and Cognitive Sciences by the University of Trieste, Italy, in 2014, under the supervision of Dr. Denis Scaini and Prof. Laura Ballerini. I was trained in electrophysiology, calcium imaging and high-resolution microscopy as a Post-Doc at the Department of Neuroscience of the International School for Advanced Studies, SISSA, Trieste, Italy. My research focused on the interactions between living neurons and carbon-based nanomaterials, such as carbon nanotubes and graphene. Then, as Postdoc, I moved in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tel-Aviv University, where my research focused on developing new tools, such as Organs-on-Chip, to investigate cellular interactions. Currently, my main research focuses on developing Organs-on-Chip to deeply investigate the neurovascular crosstalk, in physiological and pathological conditions.