Matteo Manica           

Matteo is a Research Staff Member in Accelerated Discovery at IBM Research Europe - Zürich. He's currently working on AI-driven chemical synthesis automation and on the development of multimodal generative models for material science. He received his degree in Mathematical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2013. After getting his MSc he worked in a startup, Moxoff spa, as a software engineer and analyst for scientific computing. In 2019 he obtained his doctoral degree at the end of a joint PhD program between IBM Research and the Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zürich, with a thesis on multimodal learning approaches for precision medicine.