Cosimo Cristella

After earning a master's degree in bioinformatics, Cosimo started his PhD in the Department of Medical Microbiology at the Amsterdam Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, with the aim of studying gene expression changes in patients with respiratory infections. Cosimo has been part of the EU funded PREPARE project since its inception, contributing to the selection and analysis of a copious amount of gene expression data distributed around different infecting pathogens. This data, mostly generated within MERMAIDS, allowed Cosimo to enrich his knowledge in the field of biological networks and machine learning applied to the study of complex systems. At the moment, Cosimo is also a member of the EU funded RECOVER project, in which he works to apply the knowledge acquired in recent years to the study of pathophysiology in patients affected by Covid-19.