DAMIANI CHIARA

Role
Associate professor  
Academic disciplines
Informatica (INF/01)
Email
[email protected]
Office phone
0264483402

Biography

Chiara Damiani is Assistant Professor (RTD-b) in Computer Science at the Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences of the University of Milan-Bicocca. She is associated editor of BMC Bioinformatics. She is expert in -omics data integration and modeling and simulation of biological systems.

She previously was post-doc fellow at the Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication of the University of Milano-Bicocca (2013-2019) and Junior Researcher at The Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology (2011-2012). She obtained a PhD is in Multiscale Modeling, Computational Simulations and Characterization in Material and Life Sciences from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. She was visiting PhD student at the Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics (Calgary University) under the supervision of Stuart Kauffman.

Publications

  • Galuzzi, B., Milazzo, L., Damiani, C. (2024). Adjusting for false discoveries in constraint-based differential metabolic flux analysis. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS, 150(February 2024) [10.1016/j.jbi.2024.104597]. Detail

  • Galuzzi, B., Damiani, C. (2023). An Efficient Implementation of Flux Variability Analysis for Metabolic Networks. In Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation - 16th Italian Workshop, WIVACE 2022, Gaeta, Italy, September 14–16, 2022, Revised Selected Papers (pp.58-69). Springer [10.1007/978-3-031-31183-3_5]. Detail

  • Galuzzi, B., Izzo, S., Giampaolo, F., Cuomo, S., Vanoni, M., Alberghina, L., et al. (2023). Coupling constrained-based flux sampling and clustering to tackle cancer metabolic heterogeneity. In 2023 31st Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP) (pp.185-192). IEEE [10.1109/PDP59025.2023.00037]. Detail

  • Galuzzi, B., Milazzo, L., Damiani, C. (2023). Best Practices in Flux Sampling of Constrained-Based Models. In Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science
    8th International Conference, LOD 2022, Certosa di Pontignano, Italy, September 18–22, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, Part II (pp.234-248). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH [10.1007/978-3-031-25891-6_18].     Detail

  • Ascolani, G., Angaroni, F., Maspero, D., Craighero, F., Bhavesh, N., Piazza, R., et al. (2023). LACE 2.0: an interactive R tool for the inference and visualization of longitudinal cancer evolution. BMC BIOINFORMATICS, 24(1) [10.1186/s12859-023-05221-3]. Detail

Full list

Research projects

PRIN 2022 PNRR- Missione 4, Componente 2, Investimento 1.1 - Avviso 1409/22 - EmbryoDiet: Sex-based predictions of dietary effects during gestation via multi-omics data integration of human embryo-like structures
Year: 2022
Call: Bando PRIN 2022
Grantors: M.I.U.R. - MINISTERO DELL'ISTRUZIONE, DELL'UNIVERSITA' E DELLA RICERCA

Awards

Awards

  • Premio Giovani Talenti dell’Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Università degli studi di Milano-Bicocca con il Patrocinio dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 2016
  • best oral presentation a WIVACE 2016, steering committee of WIVACE 2016, Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation, 4-6 October 2016, Salerno, 2016
  • PREMIO GIOVANI TALENTI, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca con il patrocinio dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 2016
  • BEST ORAL PRESENTATION AWARD, steering committee of WIVACE 2016, Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation, 4-6 October 2016, Salerno, 2016

Scientific fellowships

  • Componente del Consiglio/Comitato Direttivo - SysMod: Community of Special Interest in Computational Modelling of Biological Systems of the International Society of Systems Biology (ISCB), 2022
  • Socio effettivo o corrispondente - Società Italiana di Bioinformatica (BITS), 2018
  • Socio effettivo o corrispondente - International Society for Computational Biology ISCB, 2016
  • Socio effettivo o corrispondente - Società Italiana di Biochimica e Biologia Molecolare, 2015
  • Fellow - Infolife, 0

Editorial boards

  • Associate Editor di rivista o collana editoriale - BMC BIOINFORMATICS, 2019

Research and teaching assignments

  • Professore a contratto - docente del corso “omics Data integration” del Master in Quantitative Omics - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2021
  • Professore a contratto - docente di un corso presso la scuola di dottorato in “Biomolecular Medecine” dell'Universitá di Verona - Università degli Studi di VERONA, 2021
  • Professore a contratto - Docente a contratto del corso “omics Data integration” (20h) per il Master “qOmics: quantitative methods for Omics Data” - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2021
  • Professore a contratto - docente di un corso presso la scuola di dottorato Biomolecular Medecine dell'Università degli Studi di Verona - Università degli Studi di VERONA, 2021

Congresses/Conferences

  • Program committee - LOD 2020, The Sixth International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science – July 19-22, 2020 – Certosa di Pontignano, Siena – Tuscany, Italy(Italia), 2023
  • Program committee - 5th RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Computational Cancer Biology, April 14-15, 2023, Istanbul, Turkey(Turchia), 2023
  • Program committee - SAC 2020, The 35th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing, March 30 – April 3, 2020(regione non valida o sconosciuta), 2023
  • Program chair - ICSB 2022: The 21st International Conference On Systems Biology(Germania), 2022
  • Program committee - WIVACE 2022, XVI Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation, Gaeta (LT), Italy, September 14-16, 2022(Italia), 2022
  • Program committee - CIBB 2021, 17th International Conference on Computational Intelligence methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, online on 15, 16, 17 November 2021., 2021
  • Program committee - LOD 2021, The 7th International Online & Onsite Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science – October 4 – 8, 2021 – Grasmere, Lake District, England – UK(Regno Unito), 2021