Giulia Mantini is a PhD student in Computational Biology at the Amsterdam UMC – Cancer Center and Fondazione Pisana Per La Scienza in Pisa, Italy. Her PhD project involves the identification of drug targets and diagnostic markers in solid and liquid tumor biopsies with a focus on cancer proteomics and phosphoproteomics, data integration, systems biology and machine learning. She holds a master’s degree in Bioinformatics from Alma Mater Studiorum Bologna, Italy, while investigated a new methodology for massive parallel sequencing and barcoding in a joint project with the SciLifeLab – Stockholm in the Molecular Diagnostic Group. She’s currently at the last year of her PhD.