Leone Rossetti  obtained an undergraduate degree in Physics from the University of Milan, Italy, and a PhD from the Technical University of Munich, where his research focused on the biomechanics of tendon-bone attachments. His doctoral thesis explored the remarkable resilience of these materials, studying the multiscale interplay between biological structures and mechanical properties.

Following his PhD, Dr Rossetti was a postdoctoral researcher and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, in Barcelona. There, he worked on cellular mechanobiology and studied how cells rely on mechanical forces to coordinate their collective movements.

His current research interests lie at the intersection of cellular biophysics and tissue mechanics. He combines fluorescence microscopy, image analysis, mathematical modelling and optogenetics to discover the principles governing collective cellular behaviours. By reconstructing complex tissues dynamics from the bottom up, he aims to reveal how individual cells shape emergent behaviours, and how we can control them to our advantage.