Affiliation: Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy, Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering "G.Natta"

Francesca Donnaloja obtained her MSc degree cum laude in Biomedical engineering at Politecnico di Milano. She awarded cum laude her PhD in bioengineering focused on the ERC-funded project NICHOID at the Politecnico di Milano. She investigated the nuclear pore complex role in mechanostransduction pathway combining experimental and computational tools. She has been awarded a “R. Rocca” one-year fellowship at the Biology Department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, USA. She is now engaged in ERC-CoG-2016 project “MINERVA” at the TechnoBiology Laboratories at the Politecnico di Milano, where she currently deals with the technological and engineering development of the MINERVA platform.