Dr Andrea Giachino

I am an Education & Scholarship Lecturer in the Department of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences, part of the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences. I joined the faculty in 2023, having previously worked in the University of Salford and the University of Newcastle. I am a Member of the Royal Society of Biology, and an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

I teach in several degree programmes in the department, including the BSc Medical Sciences, BSc Biomedical Sciences, BSc Neuroscience, and several MScs. My primary teaching area is Statistics and Data Analysis, but I also teach smaller components in cell biology, resarch ethics, and decolonising medicine.

I am an EDI Champion in our department, working with students and staff to increase the representation of ethnic minorities in our teaching (also known as decolonising). I am also a fellow of the Education Incubator, a group of academics in the University of Exeter who use evidence-based approaches to constantly improve our teaching.

In addition to my teaching duties, I have a range of research interests. See the Research Outputs tab at the top of this page to see my most recent publications.

Qualifications:

• Doctor of Philosophy, the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, July 2022
• Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA), Advance HE, March 2020
• Bachelor of Science in Biomolecular Sciences and Technology, the University of Trento (Italy), September 2016

Career:

I have been a Lecturer in the University of Exeter since 2023, within the Department of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences.

Prior to joining Exeter, I worked as a Teaching Fellow in Biomedicine (specialising in Microbiology) in the University of Salford, between 2022 and 2023.

My alma mater is Newcastle University, where I completed my PhD research between 2017 and 2022, in the laboratory of Dr Kevin Waldron (ORCID 0000-0002-5577-7357). My research in Newcastle focused on the way bacteria handle the element copper, which is both an essential cofactor of metabolic reactions and a powerful toxicant. This was also the time when I started teaching, and I became an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy while part-timing as a postgraduate demonstrator in Newcastle University.

Before my PhD, I graduated from my BSc cum laude in the University of Trento (Italy), studying Biomolecular Sciences and Technology. I also studied briefly in the University of Lübeck (Germany), where I learned most of what I know about bioinformatics.