Carmine Cristinzio is a PhD candidate in Immunology at ETH Zurich, where he studies CD8⁺ T cell memory differentiation in the context of acute infection. He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Biotechnology from the University of Siena, Italy, and completed his Master’s thesis at the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg, Germany. Outside the lab, Carmine enjoys playing tennis and listening to history podcasts.