Viola Folli

Viola Folli, PhD, is a physicist and Chief Scientific Officer at D-Tails Research, where she leads the development of next-generation biosensors and synthetic olfaction systems for non-invasive cancer diagnostics. She coordinates ULYSSES, a Horizon Europe Pathfinder Open project bringing together leading European universities and cancer centers to develop GPCR-based yeast biosensors capable of detecting cancer-associated volatile compounds in urine.Her research sits at the intersection of synthetic biology, receptor engineering, microfluidics, and AI-driven signal analysis. With a background in nonlinear optics and neurobiology, she previously developed an integrated C. elegans platform combining calcium imaging, behavioral mapping, and controlled sensory stimulation to study olfactory circuits.Viola is the inventor of multiple patents in cancer biosensing and lab-on-chip systems and the author of numerous peer-reviewed publications. Her work focuses on building biological sensing platforms that enable scalable, non-invasive early cancer detection.