Lab members

Francesca Vallese completed her studies at the University of Padova, Italy. During her PhD, she focused on studying the structure and interactions of proteins involved in hydrogen production. Her initial postdoctoral research was conducted in the laboratory of Prof. Giuseppe Zanotti, where she acquired expertise in purifying membrane proteins and X-ray crystallography.

During her postdoc, she was a visiting student in Dr. Baumeister's lab at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry and collaborated with Novartis (Basel) and BioGUNE (Bilbao). As an Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University in Oliver Clarke's lab, she has become an expert in single-particle cryo-EM.

Francesca loves new adventures, and she is always ready for new challenges. In her free time she loves hiking and snorkeling and spend time in the nature.