Nicola Elvassore is Full Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Department of Industrial Engineering. He obtained his Master degree in Chemical Engineering (1995) and his Ph.D. in Molecular Thermodynamics (1998) at the University of Padova. After a period of visiting scientists at the University of California at Berkeley, he became Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at the University of Padova and then Full professor in 2019. He worked as a Fulbright researcher associate at Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology at MIT, Distinguished Professor in residency in biological engineering at ShanghaiTech University, and Principal Investigator of Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine.

His research interests focus on integrative approaches using the engineering principle with basic biological science to generate human models for studying development and diseases. He received funding from several national and international institutions and foundations (e.g., Telethon, CaRiPaRo). In 2022 he won an ERC Advanced grant with the project ReprOids (2022-2027), which will generate human brain organoids from selected patients in a robust, timely and seamless process and to capture - so far undetected - neurodevelopmental phenotypes. This will be obtained by combining reprogramming to nascent states of pluripotency with neurodevelopmental morphogenesis in three-dimensions.