Velia Siciliano graduated Magna cum Laude in Medical Biotechnology, BSc and MSc degree at the University of Naples Federico II.
In 2012 she obtained a PhD in Human Genetics from the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine Naples, in the Systems and Synthetic Biology lab supervised by Prof. di Bernardo.
From 2012 to 2015 Velia was a Postdoctoral fellow in the Biological Engineering Department and Synthetic Biology Centre at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with Prof. Ron Weiss.
In 2015 she won a fellowship for junior PI from Imperial College London where she established a research line in mammalian synthetic biology.
In September 2017 she was appointed as Principal Investigator at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia-IIT. She established the Synthetic and Systems Biology Lab for Biomedicine. She is also honorary fellow of Imperial College London where she still supervises research activities.
Velia is also involved in science communication activities (newspapers, Natural Geographic festival of science, radio (e.g. radio2), and podcast for the UE). She was also part of science nights to enhance the general understanding of general public towards the importance of scientific research. She is a member of Global Young Academy of Science which tackles with global issues related to science accessibility, minorities, gender balance, science communication, biodiversity.
Velia is an Associate Editor of npj Systems Biology and Applications, Associate Editor of BioDesign Research, Science Partner Journal (SPJ) family and
Member of Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Synthetic Biology,
Review Editor in Nanobiotechnology, part of the journal(s) Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, Bioengineering and Biotechnology and Materials.
