De Fabritiis, Gianni

ICREA research professor, associate professor, and group leader of the Computational Science Laboratory at UPF, and CEO at Acellera Therapeutics. Bachelor's degree with honors in applied mathematics (1997) from the University of Bologna and a Ph.D. from the University of London (2002). I worked for the CINECA supercomputing center in Italy (1998-1999) and was a postdoctoral researcher at University College London (2003-2006). I founded Acellera Ltd and later Acellera Therapeutics Inc where I currently act as CEO. In 2008, I won a tenure-track Ramon y Cajal research position and later the national I3-tenured program. In 2014, I became an ICREA Research Professor. I performed research stays as a visiting professor at Stanford University and at UCLA. I have published over a hundred articles in high-ranking international journals with an h-index of 58 and over 15k citations, with 2500 citations per year in 2025.