Cristiano is currently a Post-doctoral Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute (LBI) – NVPM directed by Prof. Meisner-Kober. He completed his Master`s degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology in 2021 at the University of Padua (Italy), discussing a thesis focused on the synthesis of polycationic bioconjugates for oligonucleotide delivery carried under the supervision of Prof. Caliceti. He received his PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Padua in 2025. His research focused on developing drug delivery systems of different scale (from nanoscale to macroscale) for different purposes: biodegradable polymeric implants (microMESH) for the local and sustained release of drugs and nanomedicines against glioblastoma, lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) for gene delivery, and nanomedicines to assess the predictive ability of AI-based tools. During his doctorate, he joined the lab of Nanotechnology for Precision Medicine at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Genova, under the supervision of Prof. Decuzzi, and the labs of Prof. Hutter and Prof. McNeil at the Universitatsspital and University of Basel (Switzerland).