Marco Pascucci

Education

Laurea triennale, University of Rome "Tor Vergata," 2010
Laurea specialistica, University of Rome "Tor Vergata," 2013
M.S., CNAM, Paris, 2016
Ph.D., University of Paris "Université Paris Cité," 2017

Bio

Professor Pascucci, who joined JCU in 2025, was born in Rome, where he studied electronic engineering and physics. In 2018, shortly after earning a Ph.D. in physics and a master’s degree in computer science in Paris, he joined Doctors Without Borders to contribute to the fight against antimicrobial resistance. He designed from scratch the first smartphone-based automatic system for reading disk-diffusion antibiograms. The prototype, developed over the course of one year, won the Google AI Impact Challenge 2019.

His Ph.D. project was both an experimental and a theoretical challenge. It involved the complete design of a new microscope (including hardware and driving software), the modeling of complex light structures, and the development of advanced image-processing algorithms.

Today, Professor Pascucci enjoys working in interdisciplinary environments where he can bring his diverse experiences and interests to teams engaged in a wide range of activities and research areas. Throughout his work in both physics and computer science, he combines the rigorous frameworks of mathematical modeling with abstract reasoning. In addition to his experience in image processing and scientific computing, he is also interested in statistics and in both the practical and formal aspects of software development.

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