Silvia Onesti#
| Membership Number: | 7209 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.elettra.trieste.it/PEOPLE/index.php?n=SilviaOnesti.HomePage |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0612-7948 |
| X: | @OnestiSilvia |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100059037286247 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-onesti-78a931199/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 - present Head of Structural Biology, Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste
- 2001 - 2008 Principal Investigator, Dept. of Physics (1995-2001) & Dept. of Biological Sciences (2001-2009), Imperial College London
- 1994 - 1995 CNR Research Scientist, University of Pavia
- 1991 - 1994 Post-doctoral research fellow in Prof. David Blow’s group at Imperial College London
- 1987 - 1991 PhD in Biophysics, Physics Department, Imperial College London
Fields of Scholarship
- Structural biology
- Synchrotron sources
- DNA repair
- Single particle electron microscopy
- Genome stability
- Enzymes
- Helicases
- X-ray diffraction
- Protein-nucleic acid interactions
- DNA replication
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Director of ICTP (UNESCO) International Schools and Workshops on Biophysics and Structural Biology in Trieste (2012, 2014), South Africa (2013), India (2016), Senegal (2018), Tanzania (2019), Rwanda (2024)
- 2025 Member of the Scientific Committee of Collegio Ghislieri, Pavia
- 2023 - current Member of the "Comitato per gli anniversari nazionali, la valorizzazione dei luoghi della memoria e gli eventi sportivi di interesse nazionale e internazionale" (Government Committee for National Anniversaries, the Enhancement of Memorial Sites, and Sports Events of National and International Interest")
- 2020 - current Member of the CAPSTONE Scientific Advisory Committee
- 2016 - current Scientific consultant for Treccani Encyclopedia (the Italian equivalent of the Encyclopaedia Britannica)
- 2009 - 2015 Member of the IUCr Commission on Biological Macromolecules
- 2016 - current Responsible for the relationships between Elettra and the Indian structural biology community
- 2014 Member of the International Programme Committee for the organization of the IUCR 23rd Congress and General Assembly, 2014
- 2009 Chairman of the of INSTRUCT Italian Working Group on Complementary Techniques, 2009
