Francesco obtained his PhD in Cardiovascular Science from King's, working on mitochondrial epigenetics. After this, he spent a year and a half at the Barts Cancer Institute, where he worked on investigating novel chemotherapy and immunotherapy treatments for ovarian cancer.

Since March 2019, he is managing the Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine in terms of health & safety, procurements and management of lab facilities. His core areas of scientific expertise are molecular biology & cloning, epigenetics and mouse models.