Master degree in Immunology, IVIC (Venezuelan Center for Scientific Research) Caracas, 1989
Certified as ESHRE Senior Clinical Embryologist in 2008
Scientific activity
From 2000 to 2004: member of several Italian and international scientific societies
From 2000 to 2004: member of the board of directors of the PGD Consortium
Since 2004: member of the ESHRE’s Embryology Special Interest Group
Since 2008: coordinator of the ESHRE’s Embryology Special Interest Group
From 2005 to 2009: Italian delegate at the European Assisted Conception Consortium, EACC of ESHRE, regarding the implementation of EU Directive 2004/23/EC in member states
From 2007 to 2009: member of the board of directors of EACC
From 2011 to 2015: member of the Executive Committee of ESHRE – European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
From 2015: coordinator of ESHRE’s Special Interest Groups
From 2017: chairman-elect of ESHRE
From 2019: chairman of ESHRE
Author or co-author of more than 200 papers in scientific journals
Professional career
From 1978 to 1980: Visiting student at the Institute of Microbiology of the Ospedale S.Orsola-Malpighi, Bologna
From 1986 to 1988: master student at the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC) in Caracas
From 1988 to 1991: researcher at the Physiopathology Laboratory at IVIC – Biologist in charge of the Immunogenetics cellular and molecular Unit