Biography

Diva Tommei

Node Director of EIT Digital ItalyDiva Tommei received a Master degree with honour ('Summa Cum Laude') in Genomic Biotechnology from the University of Rome and a Doctoral degree in Molecular and Computational Biology from the University of Cambridge, UK. She was enrolled in the NASA Ames Research program in California primarily focussing on Biotechnology and Bioinformatics.

For the past ten years she has been working in technology and innovation, first during her doctorate in Bioinformatics at Cambridge University and then as an entrepreneur.

She co-founded two biotech start-ups before founding her own current company, Solenica, a robotics and IoT start-up that builds intelligent devices to make the indoors healthier spaces for people to live and work in, operating both in the USA and Italy. She received recognitions in the domain with the first ranking in 2017 by the MIT Technology Review as an "Innovator Under 35", and then in 2018 by Forbes as one of the "Top 50 Women in Tech in Europe", recently in Italy by the Pleiade International Award 2019 in innovation and new technologies.

She extended her development in innovation and entrepreneurship community in Italy and in the USA as a speaker in technology, and as a lecturer (Rome Business School).

Diva is bringing her expertise in deep technology and research combined with a solid entrepreneurial experience.

Contact information:

Diva TommeiNode Director of EIT Digital Italy

EIT Digital ItalyVia Sommarive 18 - Northern building, 1st floor38123 Povo in Trento (Italy)diva.tommei@eitdigital.eu

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