Post-Doctoral at IIT@Sapienza–Center for Life Nano Science
PhD in Science of Materials cum laude (2011)

Viola Folli, Ph.D. is a physicist and Chief Scientific Officer at D-Tails Research, where she leads the development of next-generation biosensors, synthetic olfaction systems, and non-invasive cancer diagnostics. She coordinates EUCRASYC, an industrial research program with the Italian Institute of Technology, and ULYSSES, a prestigious EU-funded Pathfinder Open 2025 initiative carried out with leading European universities and cancer centers to develop advanced GPCR-based yeast biosensors for urine-based early cancer detection.

Her interdisciplinary background spans nonlinear optics, microfluidics, neural circuitry, and AI-driven analysis. Before moving into synthetic biology and diagnostics, she built from scratch a C. elegans neurobiology platform integrating calcium imaging, behavioral mapping, and multisensory stimulation technologies.

Viola is the inventor of multiple patents in cancer biosensing and lab-on-chip platforms and has authored numerous peer-reviewed works. Her work focuses on transforming fundamental biophysics and receptor biology into clinically scalable diagnostic technologies that enable earlier, faster, and more accessible cancer risk assessment.

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