Dr Claudia Bonfio

Claudia was born in Siena, a beautiful medieval city in Tuscany, mostly known for the wine produced in the surroundings. She completed her PhD in Biomolecular Sciences at the University of Trento (IT), working on the origin and catalytic activity of ancient proteins. Later, as a Marie Sklodowska Curie and 1851 Research Fellow, she moved to Cambridge, where she looked into the chemical origin of cell membrane signalling. She started her independent research career at the University of Strasbourg before moving back to the University of Cambridge in 2024 as a University Associate Professor. Her group is interested in designing and developing functional primitive cells capable of Darwinian evolution.