Politecnico di Torino
Torino, Italy
Martina Conte has been a postdoctoral research fellow at the Politecnico di Torino (Italy) since July 2021 working on “Nested mathematical models in biomedicine”. She is currently a visiting scholar in the group of Mathematical Oncology at City of Hope (CA). She carried out her undergraduate studies at the University of Parma (Italy), where she defended both her B.Sc. (2015) and M.Sc. (2017) Thesis in Mathematics, working on problems related to cancer development. She pursued the Ph.D. with a fellowship awarded by the «laCaixa» INPhINIT Programme 2017, co-funded by the European Commission through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie initiatives. She completed three-year doctoral studies at the University of the Basque Country and the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM), defending her Ph.D. thesis in January 2021. Her thesis, entitle “Mathematical models for glioma growth and migration inside the brain” received the 2021 Reinhart-Heinrich Doctoral Thesis Award for the best doctoral thesis in the area of Mathematical and Theoretical Biology from the European Society for Theoretical and Mathematical Biology. During her Ph.D., she had the opportunity of spending multiple research stays in prestigious institutions like TU Kaiserslautern (Germany), Politecnico of Torino (Italy), and University of Granada. In 2021, she got a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Granada and, in 2022, she got a fellowship from the Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics (Germany) to participate in their Junior Trimester Program. Her main research focus is on building mathematical theory, and integrating it with biological and clinical data, to increase understanding of tumor migration and progression, potentially leading to new treatments.