Dr Laura Barbieri

STINT Science Fellow, Japan and South Korea

Visiting Scholar, Nat’l Graduate Inst. for Policy Studies (GRIPS)

Dr Laura Barbieri is a STINT Science Fellow in Japan and South Korea. Based in Tokyo, she is currently a Visiting Scholar at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS). Previously, she was a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at Osaka Metropolitan University, where she conducted malaria immunology research within the SATREPS JICA Project in collaboration with Kenyan and Japanese partners.

Dr Barbieri holds a PhD in Experimental Immunology from the University of Padova (Italy), carried out with Karolinska Institutet (Sweden), and a Master’s degree in Medical Biotechnologies from Padova in collaboration with King’s College London (UK). She also worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Cambridge (UK) and was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Tokyo (Japan).

Dr Barbieri’s work bridges academic research, science diplomacy, and internationalisation policy, focusing on responsible global collaboration and innovation across cultures.

For contact with Dr Laura Barbieri:
laura.barbieri@stint.se