On Monday, 2 March, Prof. Deborah Sulem, the new Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Informatics of the Università della Svizzera italiana, will deliver her inaugural lecture at the Auditorium of the West Campus Lugano.

Andrea Cavalli has been a researcher at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) since 2012 and has served as the Director of the Computational Structural Biology Laboratory since 2016.

Istituto ricerche solari Aldo e Cele Daccò (IRSOL) wins a Swiss federal funding to search for life beyond Earth using polarimetry, as a partner of the National Centres of Competence in Research (NCCR) Genesis.

A recent scientific article by Peter Seele, a Full Professor at the Faculty of Communication, Culture, and Society at Università della Svizzera italiana, and Ludovico Giacomo Conti, a PhD candidate

Science is not an isolated pursuit. It underpins human progress, generating knowledge, improving lives, and connecting communities across borders.

A project proposed by the Faculty of Informatics at USI has been selected as one of 13 international projects by the Leading House for the Middle East and North Africa (LHMENA) as part of the Research Partnership Grants 2025.

After showing how Large Language Models (LLMs) can "guess" mental states from online posts or even rival expert psychiatrists in diagnostic accuracy, the REMEDI Lab (REthinking MEntal health throug

A study coordinated between ETH Zurich and Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) raises important questions about the security of some of the most widely used cloud-based password managers. The work, which will be presented at USENIX Security 2026, includes among its authors two researchers from USI's Faculty of Informatics, Prof. Matilda Backendal and PhD candidate Giovanni Torrisi, together with Matteo Scarlata and Prof. Kenneth G. Paterson from ETH Zurich.

The in-depth study of autoimmune diseases and new technologies will help researchers identify innovative therapeutic perspectives.

In commemoration of the centenary of the Locarno Treaties, an exhibition at the Library of the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio invites visitors to explore five centuries of European pacifist thought through a collection of images, texts, and objects.

How can a disease that we thought had been eradicated come knocking on Europe's door again, shifting from a historical memory into an imminent threat?

Cesare Alippi is a full professor at the Faculty of Informatics at USI and affiliated with the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA USI-SUPSI) , where he serves as Scientific Director.

When you tattoo your skin, you also "tattoo" your immune system. This is the finding of an innovative study conducted by the Infection and Immunity group at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), affiliated with Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), led by Prof. Santiago F. González and published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

How can the universe of trillions of microbes that populate our bodies influence complex pathologies such as inflammatory diseases?