Team Members

Andrea Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the Department of Chemical Science and Technologies, University of Rome Tor Vergata, where he leads the Translational Chemistry Lab. His research interests lie in the fields of DNA-based electrochemical sensors, continuous real-time molecular monitoring in vivo, functional DNA nanotechnology and point-of-care diagnostics. During his PhD in Chemistry, earned in 2016 at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, he spent almost two years abroad over three different visiting periods at the Université de Montréal (UdeM, Canada) in the group of Alexis Vallée-Bélisle. He then spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB, USA) in Kevin Plaxco’s group (2017–2019) and two years at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2, Spain) in the group of Arben Merkoçi (2019–2021). Andrea Idili has been awarded a PROBIST Postdoctoral Fellowship (H2020 MSCA-COFUND, 2019), a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (2020) and, as Principal Investigator, a “My First AIRC Grant” from the Italian Association for Cancer Research (2024). He is also the recipient of the 2019 ISSNAF Award for Young Investigators and of the 2013 Canada–Italy Innovation Award issued by the Embassy of Canada to Italy.