Position:
Data Scientist at Camelot Biomedical Systems, Genova
Contact:
cele (dot) damiani (at) gmail (dot) com
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Research interests:
After a 12 years stint between PhD and around-the-world postdocs, I got tired of moving and reinventing life, and in May 2025 I have left academia. This is my former academic personal page. 

However, I am interested in machine learning applications to the healthcare setting, with the aim of improving disease prediction and patients’ stratification.

I am also interested in geometric topology and geometric group theory, more specifically in the fields of braid groups and braid groups generalisations, and knot theory.

At the intersection of the two areas above, I am interested in harnessing Topological Data Analysis' tools in machine learning pipelines, mostly with healthcare applications in mind. 
​About me:
I am a Data Scientist at Camelot Biomedical Systems in Genova.

​Previousy I was a Postdoc at the Center of Human Technologies at IIT, working in the group of Sergio Decherchi on a MISE funded project. 

From April 2020 to November 2022 I was a Postdoctoral Data Scientist on the CRUK EDx funded project "An Artificial Intelligence System for Real-time Risk Assessment at Mammography Screening" at the Wolfson Institute of Population Health (Queen Mary University of London) working in Adam Brentnall's group and collaborating with Giovanni Montana's group at the University of Warwick.

From September 2018 to March 2020 I was a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, working on the Leverhulme Trust funded research project “Emergent physics from lattice models of higher gauge theory”.
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From November 2016 to April 2018 I was a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at the Osaka City University Advanced Mathematical Institute. 

I completed my PhD on the topology of loop braid groups in September 2016 at the Université de Caen Normandie (France), under the direction of Paolo Bellingeri and with the scientific supervision of Emmanuel Wagner.
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Prior to that I studied mathematics at the University of Trieste (Italy). An Erasmus year at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) led me to fall in love with knot theory. 

I have organised the workshop ​
​"Loops in Leeds: Motion groups and related topics".

1 - 4 July 2019, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds -- https://sites.google.com/view/loops-in-leeds/home​