Damiana Leo obtained her PhD in Neurosciences in 2008 from the University of Naples ‘SUN’. In February 2008, she moved to Montreal at the Pharmacology Department, University of Montreal, as Postdoc with two fellowships from ‘Fonds de la Recherche en Santé Québec’ and from ‘Government of Canada Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships (PDRF)’.

After a few years, in 2011, she moved back to Italy at the Italian Institute of Tecnology, IIT as Senior Postdoc in the Department of ‘Neurosciences and Brain Technology with Raul Gainetdinov.

In 2018, she joined the University of Mons, Mons, Belgium by winning a grant from Fondation Recherche Alzheimer (FRA) and two European Projects ERANET and ERARARE to study animal models of dopamine related diseases.

In 2023, she arrived at University of Lille and Inserm as Project Manager for the RESISTOMICS and TECSANTE projects.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9219-5498

LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/damiana-leo/