Data Scientist - Research Methodologist - Baker
Interested in Animal Welfare, Evidence Synthesis and Butterscotch Cookies

Research · Animal Welfare · 3Rs · Translation · Reproducibility · FAIR Data · Scientific Databases

Tools · R · R Shiny · Quarto · Python · SQL · Git/GitHub · Tableau · CSS · HTML · JavaScript · Illustrator · Covidence · Rayyan · ASReview

Communication · Data Visualisation · Scientific Storytelling · Teaching · Training

Research

Evidence Synthesis & Research Methodology
Systematic reviews, meta-analyses and methodological research focused on improving the quality, reliability and usefulness of biomedical evidence.

Animal Welfare & Translational Research
Animal models, experimental validity, reproducibility and the translation of preclinical findings into human health research.

Research Integrity & Reproducibility
Bias, questionable research practices, open science, reproducible workflows and FAIR research principles.

Biomedical & Real-World Data
Statistical analysis and data science applied to clinical and preclinical datasets, including real-world ophthalmology and clinical trial data.

Computational Research & Scientific Communication
Data pipelines, interactive dashboards, data visualisation and automated workflows that make complex scientific evidence easier to explore, understand and communicate.

Short CV

Positions

Oct 2025 - ongoing, Occasional Home-baker
Zurich, Switzerland

Jun 2023 - May 2026, Data Scientist & Project Manager
University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland

Nov 2022 - Dec 2025, Postdoctoral Researcher
Center for Reproducible Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Mar 2021 - Jan 2025, Freelancer Data Scientist & Lecturer
Switzerland

Dec 2018 - Jun 2022, PhD Researcher
Veterinary Public Health Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland

Dec 2017 - March 2018, Pastry chef
Pasticceria Monti, Torino, Italy

Education

Feb 2016 - Sep 2018, Master’s degree in Ecology and Evolution
University of Bern, Switzerland

Aug 2017 - Dec 2017, Pastry chef certification
Torino, Italy

Oct 2011 - Oct 2015, Bachelor’s degree in Biology
Università degli studi di Torino, Italy

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Projects

Events (co-)organized by me

Winter school on systematic reviews of animal studies. link
Feb 2026: Zurich

International SR-SAVI Conference on systematic review of animal and in-vitro studies. link Nov 2024: Zurich

Summer school on systematic reviews of animal studies. link
Aug 2023: Zurich CH, Aug 2024: Bergen NO

R Bootcamp and Bring-your-own-data (BYOD) Workshop link
Nov 2022: Bern, Switzerland

Web design

My home bakery

Achtsamkeit.ch (in development)

SR-SAVI conference

Outreach

Animal use in drug development - 3RCC interview

Talks/Lectures including Applied Ethology and Animal Welfare Course (Bern), World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences (Maastricht), ReproducibiliTea Switzerland

Conference posters including GCB Symposium 2021 (Bern), 3Rs Day 2023 (Lausanne), SR-SAVI 2024 (Zurich)

Grants and Awards

open_innovation UZH teaching fund
for “Systematic review and meta-analysis: a hands-on, research-based semester course for life science students” (2024)

3RCC Award and 3Rs UZH Award
for the efforts in advancing and promoting the 3Rs and animal welfare in preclinical research (2024)

GRC Short Grant and 3RCC sponsorship
for the funding of the Summer School of the Systematic review of Animal Studies, University of Zürich (2023)

YOU-WC11 Award
for best presentations from Early Career Researchers Maastricht, The Netherlands (2021)

Data visualization

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Publications

1. Menon JLM, Rosso M, et al. (2025) “The efficacy of candidate HIV vaccines in non-human primates and humans: a systematic review.” medRxiv link

2. Liesner J, Ineichen BV, Rosso M (2026) “Use and reporting of systematic review methodology in EFSA Scientific Opinions on animal health and welfare.” Frontiers in Veterinary Science link

3. Hild BF, Brüschweiler D, Hild STK, Bugajska J, von Wyl V, Rosso M, Wever KE, Furrer E, Ineichen BV (2024) “Quality, topics, and demographic trends of animal systematic reviews - an umbrella review.” Journal of Translational Medicine link

4. Berg I, Härvelid P, Zürrer WE, Rosso M, Reich DS, Ineichen BV (2024) “Which experimental factors govern successful animal-to-human translation in multiple sclerosis drug development? A systematic review and meta-analysis.” eBioMedicine link

5. Rosso M, Doneva S, Howells D, Leenaars CHC, Ineichen BV (2024) “Summer school for systematic reviews of animal studies: Fostering evidence-based and rigorous animal research.” ALTEX - Alternatives to animal experimentation link

6. Rosso M, Herrera A, Würbel H, Voelkl B (2024) “Evidence of HARKing in mouse behavioural tests of anxiety.” Royal Society Open Science link

7. Ineichen BV, Rosso M, Macleod MR (2023) “From data deluge to publomics: How AI can transform animal research.” Lab Animal link

8. Rosso M, Held L (2023) “Primer: Principles of Data Visualization.” Center for Reproducible Science Primer Collection, Zenodo link

9. Zurrer WE, Cannon AE, Ewing E, Rosso M, Reich DS, Ineichen BV (2023) “Auto-STEED: A data mining tool for automated extraction of experimental parameters and risk of bias items from in vivo publications.” bioRxiv link
10. Rosso M, Wirz R, Loretan AV, Sutter NA, Pereira da Cunha CT, Jaric I, Würbel H, Voelkl B (2022) “Reliability of common mouse behavioural tests of anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis on the effects of anxiolytics.” Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews link
11. Novak J, Jaric I, Rosso M, Rufener R, Touma C, Würbel H (2022) “Handling method affects measures of anxiety, but not chronic stress in mice.” Scientific Reports link
12. Jaric I, Voelkl B, Clerc M, Schmid MW, Novak J, Rosso M, Rufener R, von Kortzfleisch VT, Richter SH, Buettner M, Bleich A, Amrein I, Wolfer DP, Touma C, Sunagawa S, Würbel H (2022) “The rearing environment persistently modulates mouse phenotypes from the molecular to the behavioural level.” PLOS Biology link
13. von Kortzfleisch VT, Ambrée O, Karp NA, Meyer N, Novak J, Palme R, Rosso M, Touma C, Würbel H, Kaiser S, Sachser N, Richter SH (2022) “Do multiple experimenters improve the reproducibility of animal studies?” PLOS Biology link
14. Bailoo JD, Voelkl B, Varholick J, Novak J, Murphy E, Rosso M, Palme R, Würbel H (2020) “Effects of weaning age and housing conditions on phenotypic differences in mice.” Scientific Reports link

Sweets

Some of my non-academic creations