Jun Prof Camilla Ciolli Mattioli

Camilla Ciolli Mattioli studied biotechnology at the University of Florence (Italy) and received her PhD from the Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany) in 2019. During her doctoral research at the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology of the Max Delbrück Center, she focused on the mechanisms driving RNA localization and local translation in eukaryotic cells. She then won a Marie-Curie fellowship and joined the lab of Roi Avraham at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel) as a postdoctoral fellow, where she investigated how bacterial phenotypic heterogeneity affects infection outcomes. She has been a research group leader at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) and a junior professor at the University of Würzburg since February 2026.