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 a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

I am module lead for Statistics for Biomedical Scientists, a core module in the 2nd-year of the BSc Biomedical Sciences. I also teach in 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:

• Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, University of Exeter 2025
• Doctor of Philosophy, the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne 2022
• Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA), Advance HE 2020
• Bachelor of Science in Biomolecular Sciences and Technology, the University of Trento (Italy) 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.