Walter Tucci

After specializing in medicine and a CNR scholarship to the United States, he worked first in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Boston University and then at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Returning to Europe in 2003, after a long period in Oxford, he became director of the Laboratory of Behavioral Genetics and Epigenetics at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa. He published with Longanesi I geni del male (2019) and Il mistero del sonno. Perché siamo fatti per dormire (2024). Since 2023, he has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology of the United Kingdom.