Pisa, Tuscany, Italy
Giorgio Mattei was born in Poggibonsi (Italy) in 1986. He received the Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Biomedical Engineering (both cum laude) at the University of Pisa (Italy) in 2008 and 2010, respectively. He obtained a PhD in Chemical and Materials Engineering at the Univ. of Pisa in May 2014, then he was a Post-Doc researcher at the Research Centre ''E. Piaggio'' (Univ. of Pisa) until Oct 2016. Being strongly interested in technology transfer, he co-founded IVTech s.r.l. in Jan 2014, a spin-off company devoted to design innovative technologies for advanced in-vitro cell cultures (www.ivtech.it). He then won a Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (MSCA-IF) European research grant thanks to which he was a Research Fellow at Optics11 B.V., Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Leiden University Medical Centre (The Netherlands) from Nov 2016 to Jun 2018. Afterwards, he has been an Assistant Professor in Bioengineering at the University of Pisa until Jul 2019. Since Aug 2019, he is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at AI Technologies s.r.l., a brand-new Italian company, stemming from of a big International Group, focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI) related areas. Since Oct 2019 he is a Partner at GATE SpA. Since Nov 2019 he is a member of the Board of Directors at Gruppo FIPA.