Andrea Cerase

CURRICULUM VITAE ANDREA CERASE

Personal Information:
Andrea Cerase
ORCID: 0000-0002-1985-2049

Education:
• Feb. 2022 Professorship qualification eligibility (habilitation) for the Italian University system (Level A/Full Professor, “Prima Fascia”, Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale 2021, 05/E2, Molecular Biology).

• April 2017 Professorship qualification eligibility (habilitation) for the Italian University system (Level B/Associate professor,“Seconda Fascia”, Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale 2016, 05/E2, Molecular Biology).
• Sept. 2014-Mar. 2015 Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy – UK system (AFHEA, PR083643 -24th March2015). Qualification for teaching at the university level.
• Oct. 2003-Jan. 07 Ph.D in Advanced Biology with a thesis in Human Genetics at the University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy of which ~1 year spent at the Imperial College, London, UK (Italian XIX cycle, Biologia Avanzata).
• Nov. 1996-Mar. 2002 MSc in Molecular Biology (Honours, 110/110 summa cum laude) at University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy.

Current Position(s):
• Feb. 2022- date Tenure-track assistant professor (RTDb) at University of Pisa, Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology (Department of excellence from 2023), Pisa, Italy.
• Feb. 2022- date Honorary/Visiting Lecturer in Epigenetics and Genomics (Assistant Professor) at the Blizard Institute, QMUL, London (UK)

Previous Positions:
• Oct. 2018-Jan.2022 Lecturer in Epigenetics and Genomics (Assistant Professor) at the Blizard Institute, Centre for Genomicsand Child Health, Queen Mary University of London (Russel Group Uni), Barts and the London School of Medicine andDentistry, London, UK.
• July-Aug. 2018 Visiting Scientist in Biology and Biological Engineering at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech),Division of Biology and Biological Engineer in the group of Prof. Mitchell Guttman, Pasadena, USA.
• Jan. 2014-July 2018 EMBL Fellow Research fellowship under the supervision of Prof. Phil Avner’s (EMBL Rome, Italy)
• Feb. 2007-Dec 2013 Post Doctoral Research Associate,Research associate in Prof. Neil Brockdorff’s group (Biochemistry Department, University of Oxford, Oxford*, UK
• Oct. 2003-Jan. 2007 Doctoral Research, Ph.D. in PhD at the GB-National Research Council, CNR, Naples, Italy and CSC-MRC, Imperial College London, UK for one year)
• Mar. 2002-Oct. 2003 Post-graduate training. Telethon Fellowship in at the IGB-National Research Council, CNR)
• Oct. 2000-Mar. 2002 Experimental thesis work at the National Institute of Cancer Research "Fondazione G. Pascale" Naples,Italy)

Fellowships and awards:
• Jan. 2014-Jan. 2018 EMBL fellow – EMBL Rome, Monterotondo, Italy.
• May 2010-Sep. 2012 Fulford Junior Research Fellowship - Somerville College, University of Oxford,
Oxford, UK.
• Mar. 2006-Jan. 2007 Epigenome Network of Excellence grant.
• Sep. 2006 Conference travel grant – 2nd International X Chromosome Inactivation Meeting, Paris, France.
• Jun. 2003-Jan. 2004 Telethon Foundation Fellowship – IGB, Naples, Italy.

SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS; PhD POSTDOC STUDENTS:
21 Undergraduates, 3 postdocs, 4 lab technicians, 3 PhD students, 2 paid/unpaid graduated students.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES:
• 2022-2025 Biotechnology for the Neurosciences course (12 lectures, 3 CFU/year - 24 lectures, 6 CFU/year from 2024)
• 2022-2024 Genetics and Molecular Biology course (20 lectures in Molecular Biology, 2 laboratory tutorial sessions, 6 (CFU/year)
• 2019-2022 Problem-based learning (PBL) facilitator in Metabolism, Neuroscience 1and 2 and Human Development and metabolism (5-6 classes/per module per year)
• Tutor Biochemistry at University of Oxford (>15 students, Merton and Wadham College, Oxford, UK).

ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS:
• Sep. 10th/11th 2020 QMUL New Horizons in Genomics 2020 (international meeting), London, UK. Main organizer of the entire meeting with Prof. Vardhman Rakyan, >500 registrations.