Michela Matteoli is Full Professor of Pharmacology at Humanitas University, Head of Pharmacology and Brain Pathology lab and Director of the Neuroscience Program at the Humanitas Research Hospital.
Matteoli obtained her PhD from the University of Pisa, she has been EMBO postdoctoral fellow at the Yale School of Medicine and Visiting Scientist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. She is member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and the Academia Europaea.
Former director of the Institute of Neuroscience of the CNR, she has been -or currently is- member of international scientific committees, including the European Research Council (ERC), the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Harvard-Armenise Foundation. In her career she has received various awards, including the Feltrinelli prize for Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology from the Accademia dei Lincei, the Marcello Sgarlata prize and the Atena prize for scientific merits. In 2013 she was awarded the Mid-Career Mentoring Award by the prestigious magazine Nature, for having inspired a generation of young scientists. She is the author of over 170 publications with high scientific impact (with an H-index of 75). She has been awarded with several international grants, including the ERC Advanced Grant in 2022. Her research focuses on the synapse and how the immune system affects its formation and function.
