Luca carried out his Ph.D research in the laboratory of Matthias Carl at Heidelberg University in Germany where he studied the establishment of left-right neuronal asymmetries in the embryonic brain. He next joined Caroline Hill’s laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London. There, by implementing transcriptomics and quantitative imaging approaches, he explored how morphogen gradients control cell fate specification and morphogenesis in the early embryo. He aims now to combine these expertise with the use of brain organoids to uncover evolutionary aspects underlying morphogenesis of the cerebellum, one of the most ancient regions of the brain.