Resourceful and highly enthusiastic research scientist with a diverse cultural and multidisciplinary background. A valuable team player having contributed to scientific research on fundamental and translational projects in the UK, Italy and the USA. I’m also an effective communicator who enjoys collaborating with, training and learning from colleagues. I have focused my career around four heavily interconnected fields: Visual Neuroscience, Neuro-electronic interfacing, retinal rescue and microscopy. Visual Neuroscience: Focused on elucidated the intricacies of the visual system, I have investigated retinal and cortical circuits using a variety of approaches, including in vivo electrophysiology, ex vivo optophysiology/Multi-electrode arrays, and immunohistochemistry. My contributions focused mostly on the influence of melanopsin signaling in retinal coding. Neuro-electronic interfacing: Dedicated to the seamless integration of neural tissue (neurons, glia, vascular system) with computational equipment (electrodes, nano-particles, optogenetics, chemogenetics), I have investigated the biophysical, molecular and ultra-structural properties of this interface in both fundamental and translational projects. Retinal rescue: Dedicated to the study and treatment of retinal dystrophies, I have worked on an array of degeneration models (Diabetic Retinopathy, P23H, CRX, RD1, RS1, RD10, RCS), and investigated cutting edge treatment strategies (optogenetics, nano-particles, bio-electronic prostheses, low molecular weight compounds, biologics). Microscopy: For the past 15 years, I have been at the forefront of developing cutting-edge structural and neurophysiological imaging techniques. These innovative assays have been successfully applied across a diverse spectrum of scales: from investigating intricate biological interactions at the nanoscopic level using electron microscopy to mapping the complex neuro-glio-vascular interactions of hundreds of retinal cells through multiphoton imaging.