PAOLA PACI
Structure:
Dipartimento di INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA, AUTOMATICA E GESTIONALE "ANTONIO RUBERTI"
SSD:
IBIO-01/A

Orari di ricevimento

Il giovedi pomeriggio dalle 17 alle 18
Via Ariosto, 25 - 00185 Roma
aula A106

Curriculum

Personal Information

Paola Paci

ORCID: 0000-0002-9393-2047

Date of birth: 04/11/1972

Nationality: Italian

Education

2010 - Second Level Master in Bioinformatics at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

2003 - PhD in Physics at the University of Pavia, Italy

1999 - MSc in Physics at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Current Position

2020-present: Associate Professor at the Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering "Antonio Ruberti" of Sapienza University of Rome

2022-present: Affiliate Professor at the Department of Laboratory Medicine, Cardio-Metabolic Unit of Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Previous Positions

2022-2023: Visiting Professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital of Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (US)

2011-2020: Researcher at the Institute for Systems Analysis and Computer Science (IASI) "Antonio Ruberti", CNR, Rome, Italy

Fellowships and awards

2018: Best Poster Awards, Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS)

2017: Best Poster Award (700 USD), IEEE Technical Committee on Computational Life Science Society (TCCLS)

2016: Best Poster Award (500 USD), IEEE Technical Committee on Computational Life Science Society (TCCLS)

2014: SysBio award (10.000 euro), SYSBIO – Centre of Systems Biology

2010: Second Level Master award (1500 euro), Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Supervision of graduate students; PhD PostDoc students

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy:

2011-present: 17 MCs graduating students in Biomedical Engineering, 3 MSc in Genetics and Molecular Biology, 1 MSc in Computer Science, 2 MSc in Management Engineering, 13 BSc in Bioinformatics, 1 BSc in Biological Science

2012-2015: 1 PhD student in Engineering in Computer Science

2019-present: 3 PhD students in "Innovative Biomedical Technologies in Clinical Medicine"

2021-2023: 2 PostDoc students

2022-2015: 3 Post-graduate fellowships

2021-2026: 1 fixed-term research position (RTDA )

Campus Biomedico University of Rome, Italy:

2009-2012: 5 BSc and 1MSc graduating students in Biomedical Engineering

IASI-CNR of Rome, Italy:

2015-2021: 4 PostDoc students

Teaching activities

Professor at Sapienza University of Rome for:

2020-present: Bioinformatics II, BSc Bioinformatics, Faculty of: Pharmacy and Medicine; Information Engineering, Informatics and Statistics; Medicine and Dentistry; Mathematical Physical and Natural Sciences

2014-present: Bioengineering for Genomics, MSc in Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering Bioinformatics

2015-2017: Computational Biology, MSc in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Mathematical Physical and Natural Sciences

Adjunct Professor at Campus Biomedico University of Rome for:

2012-2014: Applied Genomics, MSc Food Science and Human Nutrition, Departmental Faculty of Medicine and Surgery

2007-2011: Calculus, BSc Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering

2008-2012: Mathematical Methods, BSc Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Organisation of scientific meetings

2025: Organizer and Co-Director of the 3-day Workshop “The Network Medicine Training Course”, organized by Sapienza University of Rome and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

2024: Organizer and Program Co-chair of "The 2nd Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities in Network Medicine and Multi-Omics bioinformatics’ approaches for studying human complex diseases", held in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2024), Lisboa (Portugal).

2023: Organizer and Program Co-chair of the “Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities in Network Medicine and Multi-Omics bioinformatics’ approaches for studying human complex diseases", held in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2023), Istanbul (Turkey).

Institutional responsibilities

2018-present: Member of the board of the PhD program in "Innovative Biomedical Technologies in Clinical Medicine", Department of Translational and Precision Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

2020-present: Member of the Quality Assurance Management Commission (CGAQ) of the Course of Study in Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

2024-present: Vice-President of the Bachelor’s Program in Bioinformatics of Sapienza University of Rome.

2024: Director of the Advanced Training Course (CAF) in “Network Medicine: una nova visione della medicina”, organized by Sapienza University of Rome and Confindustria Dispositivi Medici.

2024: Member of the Scientific Teaching Committee of the Second Level Master in "Gestione integrata dei dispositivi medici-medical technologies regulatory affairs", organized by Sapienza and Confindustria Dispositivi Medici.

2023: Member of the Scientific Teaching Committee of the Advanced Training Course (CAF) in “Advanced Bioinformatics Technologies”, organized by Fondazione Golinelli, Innovation-Culture.

2015-2017: Member of the board of the PhD program in "Life Science and Biology and Biotechnology", Bicocca University of Milan, Italy.

Reviewing and editorial activities

2018-present: Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports, Nature

2022-present: Associate Editor of Biotechnology Reports, Elsevier

Memberships of scientific societies

2022-present: member of
- Steering and Scientific Committee of the Network Medicine Institute and Global Alliance
- GNB - Gruppo Nazionale di Bioingegneria

Major collaborations

J. Loscalzo, E. Silverman, Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (USA)
P. Parini, Network Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stoccolma
I. Caruana, ‪Immunotherapy, University Children's Hospital of Würzburg‬‬
E. Ferretti, V. Panebianco, Radiomics, Policlinico Umberto 1, Rome, Italy
T. Manzo, Oncology, European Institute of Oncology (IEO), Milan, Italy