Paola Picotti PhD

Paola Picotti studied pharmaceutical chemistry and technology at the University of Padua in Italy and completed a PhD in the molecular mechanisms of protein folding at the same university’s CRIBI Biotechnology Center in 2006.

After a brief research stint at the MATI Center of Excellence at the University of Udine in 2007, she joined ETH Zurich as a Marie Curie post-doctoral student in Professor Rudolf Aebersold’s group at the Institute of Molecular Systems Biology. She developed a quantitative method of targeted proteomic analysis that enables the behavior of cellular protein networks to be studied under different conditions. In 2011 she took up a position as an independent group leader at ETH Zurich’s Institute of Biochemistry.