Data engineer at Infordata Sistemi, Trieste. I work where brains and algorithms trip over each other — right now that means wrangling data, turning scientific discipline into something that occasionally survives contact with reality. Concretely: PostgreSQL schemas, Python pipelines, and RAG systems for EU-funded environmental research (REMEDIES, INSPIRE, KARST FIREWALL 5.0, TASC-RestoreMed, CLEAR-WATER).
Background in neuroscience — MSc Vienna (Zimmer Lab, C. elegans optogenetics), BSc Trieste (Tongiorgi Lab, BDNF in neuronal development).
Infordata Sistemi Srl . Database and pipeline work across a rolling set of EU-funded environmental projects — REMEDIES (beach-litter monitoring), INSPIRE (river litter), KARST FIREWALL 5.0 (wildfire prediction in the Karst region), TASC-RestoreMed and CLEAR-WATER. Schema design, data harmonization across heterogeneous monitoring streams, and an internal RAG system over project documentation. Increasingly, LLM-assisted metadata generation (GPT-4, Claude) for the parts no one wanted to do by hand. Stack: python, postgresql, sqlalchemy, fastapi, chromadb.
Area Science Park — Laboratory of Data Engineering . Research fellowship building Python tooling for validation of Oxford Nanopore sequencing data, plus topological data analysis applied to FAIR-compliant datasets. The brief in practice: make downstream re-use of bioscience data less of an archaeological exercise. Stack: python, snakemake, pandas.
Zimmer Lab, University of Vienna . Master's thesis on C. elegans sensory–behavioural circuits. Tested a new optogenetic-and-tracking microscope rig, ran video analysis of worm responses, and trained DeepLabCut networks for body-part tracking. Stack: python, deeplabcut, imagej.
BIA Separations (Sartorius) . Chromatography runs on AKTA systems for protein purification, contributing to downstream method development for AAV and adenovirus vectors. Standard analytical assays alongside — SDS-PAGE, Bradford, PicoGreen.
Tongiorgi Lab, University of Trieste . Bachelor's thesis on the role of BDNF in neuronal development — PCR, cryostat sectioning, gel electrophoresis, in-situ hybridization.
Zingarate — travel diary. Notes and routes from a small archive of trips through Europe; currently Czech Republic (October 2025) and Scotland (March–April 2026).
Vocabularies — browser for the EU and FAIR controlled vocabularies (species, habitats, marine litter categories, environmental pressures) used across the projects above. Click any code to copy. No accounts, no framework.
Tools — password, QR code and barcode generators, a unit converter and an epoch timestamp converter. Everything runs in the browser; nothing you type is sent anywhere. No accounts, no framework.
SM-Knowledge-Base — internal retrieval-augmented Q&A over Infordata's project documentation, built with fastapi, chromadb and hybrid BM25 + vector retrieval with reciprocal rank fusion. Not public.
GoCheckIt — data-quality monitoring sidecar that watches production schemas for shape and content drift. python, yaml, streamlit. Internal.
Google Project Management Professional Certificate . Seven-course programme on initiating, planning and running both traditional and agile projects — project initiation, planning, execution, Agile/Scrum, and a real-world capstone.
Master in Data Management and Curation (MDMC) . Ten-month professional programme, 60 ECTS, on FAIR-by-design research data management — open science, RDM, scientific Python, cloud infrastructure, AI for scientific applications.
MSc in Neuroscience . Cellular and molecular neurobiology, neuroanatomy, neuropharmacology, molecular neurophysiology, cognitive neuroscience. Thesis at the Zimmer Lab in Vienna.
BSc in Biology . Foundations across general biology, chemistry, anatomy, molecular biology and genetics. Thesis at the Tongiorgi Lab.
Awards: ZKB Cooperative Bank merit scholarship for the MSc in Neuroscience (2021–2024); FAIR-by-Design research fellowship at Area Science Park (2024–2025).
Played basketball through 2023 (coached youth teams 2016–2021, middle-school teacher briefly in 2021), host at the family winery Osmica Zidarich. Outside work: Warhammer 40K, Adler, occasional painting.
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