BuffaFrancesca University of Oxford, UK; Bocconi University, Milan, Italy; IFOM, Milan, ItalyUnited Kingdom

Francesca Buffa is a Full Professor at the Department of Computing Sciences, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy; Principal Investigator of the AI & Systems Biology Lab at IFOM, Milan, Italy; and emeritus Professor and visiting researcher at the University of Oxford, UK. She is the recipient of a European Research Council Award with sits at Bocconi University, where she supervises a team delivering novel computational tools, and the University of Oxford, where she supervises a lab generating and analyzing multi-omics and high-throughput screen data studying cell adaptation to hypoxia. Prior to this, she was a Full Professor of Computational Biology and Cancer Genomics, and Group Leader, at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. She holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of London, United Kingdom, and a degree in Theoretical Physics from the University of Turin, Italy.