ESR1

Konstantinos Panagiotopoulos
Holding an M.Sc. degree in Informatics for Life Sciences from the University of Patras, Greece. His field of experience is related to Bioinformatics and specifically in biomarker’s discovery. Currently working on modelling biochemical pathways that lead to neurodevelopmental diseases in preterm newborns.
Supervisor: Marco Agostino Deriu
Co-supervisor: Konstantinos Theofilatos
ESR2

Syed Taimoor Hussain Shah
Holding an M.Sc. in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence and Machine Vision) from Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied sciences, Pakistan. His field of experience is related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Vision, BioInformatics, and Computational Biomolecular Design.
Supervisor: Marco Agostino Deriu
Co-supervisor:
ESR3

Emiliano Trimarco
Holding an M.Sc. in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Sapienza in Rome, Italy. His field of expertise is related to developing a physiologically constrained spiking neuron model of the cerebellar-cortical system in neurodevelopmental disorders.
Supervisor: Isabel Benavente-Fernández
Co-supervisor: Bahram Jafrasteh
ESR4

Lolia Ibanibo
Holding an M.Sc. in Molecular Biology from Nottingham Trent University. Her field of experience is related to cellular and molecular interactions, specifically in metabolomics and transcriptomics. Her current research is related to the discovery of microRNA biomarkers that will enable the early identification of preterm infants.
Supervisor: Simón Lubián-López
Co-supervisor: Raúl Montañez Martínez
ESR5

Janet Pigueiras
Holding an M.Sc. in Information Technologies from the University of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México. Her field of experience is related to the Internet of Things, Machine Learning and Data Science applied mainly in social-oriented areas.
Supervisor: Lionel Cervera Gontard
Co-supervisor: Angel Ruiz Zafra
ESR6

Roa’a Khaled
Holding an Erasmus Mundus Joint M.Sc. in Medical Imaging and Applications. Her field of experience is related to computer vision and machine learning for medical images analysis. Her current research is related to developing deep learning tools for the automatic diagnosis of Neurodevelopmental disorders from neonatal neuroimages.
Supervisor: Lionel Cervera Gontard
Co-supervisor: Joaquin Pizarro
ESR7

Arantxa Ortega
Holding an M.Sc. in Quantitative Biotechnology from the University of Zaragoza, Spain. Her field of experience is related to the development of bioinformatics platforms for metagenomic analysis. She is currently working on the development of ML algorithms based on clinical and omics data to identify biomarkers related to NDD & CHD.
Supervisor: Ignacio Turias
Co-supervisor: Daniel Urda
ESR8

Marta Malavolta
Holding an M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Italy. Her field of experience is the application of machine learning techniques for the research of possible causes of cardiovascular mortality and the tracking of the care strategies, and the investigation of human taste receptors at the molecular level.
Supervisor: Aleksander Sadikov
Co-supervisor: Vida Groznik
ESR9

Syed Adil Hussain Shah
Holding an M.Sc. in Computer Science from COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan. His field of expertise is related to machine vision, biomedical imaging and intelligence system development. He is currently working on the development of novel IoT-based solutions to the early diagnosis of newborn motor/cognitive impairments.
Supervisor: Angelo Di Terlizzi
Co-supervisor: Marco Agostino Deriu
ESR10

Andrea De Gobbis
Holding an M.Sc. in Mathematical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. His field of experience is related to the application of mathematic theory in the context of probability, statistics and machine learning with applications to complex systems in the context of healthcare and finance.
Supervisor: Vida Groznik
Co-supervisor: Aleksander Sadikov
ESR11

Jaime Simarro
Holding an Erasmus Mundus Joint M.Sc. in Medical Imaging and Applications. His field of experience is related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques applied to neuroimaging. He is currently working at icometix developing models for quantitative brain measurements on pediatric data.
Supervisor: Thibo Billiet
Co-supervisor: Els Ortibus
ESR12

Monica Crotti
Holding an M.Sc in Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Neuropsychology at Padova’s University, Italy. Her field of experience is related to the investigation of the MRI neural correlates of motor imagery in healthy subjects. She is currently focused on the investigation of neurological factors determining visual deficits and visuomotor control.
Supervisor: Els Ortibus
Co-supervisor: Lisa Mailleux
ESR13

Enrico Piccinelli
MD, interventional paediatric cardiologist. He trained at the Niguarda Hospital in Milan, at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London and now he is working at Ospedale Bambino Gesù in Rome. Author of many papers published in major paediatric cardiology journals. Volunteer in some humanitarian associations in Italy and Kosovo.
Supervisor: Gianfranco Butera
Co-supervisor: Marco Agostino Deriu
ESR14

Pablo Romero
Holding an M.Sc. in Telecommunication Engineering at the University of Granada, Spain. His field of experience is related to the development of cloud software structures with Amazon Web Services and the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques in Cloud environments.
Supervisor: Giacomo Di Benedetto
Co-supervisor: Gianvito Grasso
ESR15

Arnaud Gucciardi
Holding an M.Sc. in Bioinformatics at the University of Rennes, France. His field of experience is related to the application of neural network theory, computational modelling and data analysis. He is currently working on the development of ML algorithms aggregation to fuse data from different origins to identify biomarkers.
Supervisor: Umberto Michelucci
Co-supervisor: Aleksander Sadikov