Strategy Director at the Agusti Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS) in Barcelona (Spain).
She oversees the strategic plan of the institute, and coordinates diverse areas, including technology transfer, science communication, scientific career development and training, as well as the technology platforms and laboratory support services.
Previously, she held the position of Head of International and Scientific Affairs at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona. Her department´s mission was to strengthen the international and interdisciplinary dimension of the institute and create new opportunities for the scientific community by fostering new strategic partnerships and alliances. She played a fundamental role in the creation of the European Alliance in life sciences, called EU-LIFE (www.eu-life.eu), that she represented in the European Open Science Policy Platform advising Commissioner Moedas. She also coordinated the H2020 project ORION on Open Science. Prior to joining the CRG, she worked as postdoctoral researcher in molecular and structural biology at the Gene Center of the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich (Germany), and at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada), where she focused on the functional and structural characterization of large macromolecular complexes.
Michela holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Pavia (Italy), where she studied transcription regulation in bacterial motility.
