About

Lorenzo Fabbri

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Group, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO).

About Me

I am a cancer epidemiologist focused on the environmental and social determinants of cancer. As a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) in Madrid, I work on pancreatic and bladder cancer and hold a Juan de la Cierva fellowship (2026–2029). Before joining CNIO, I held a postdoctoral fellowship in the Rakislova Lab at ISGlobal, working on the cancer genomics of vulvar and penile squamous cell carcinoma.

My research combines transparent causal-inference methods with evidence-triangulation strategies to strengthen causal conclusions from observational data. I completed my PhD in Biomedicine at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2021–2025) within the Childhood and Environment group at ISGlobal, under the supervision of Prof. Martine Vrijheid and Dr. Léa Maitre, working on early-life environmental exposures and neurodevelopment in the HELIX and ATHLETE cohorts.

Alongside my research, I am pursuing further graduate training in public health (LSHTM and UNED), social inequalities (UNED), theoretical statistics (the Open University), and economics (UOC). I also build open-source tools for reproducible research: I lead the etverse ecosystem for transparent causal inference, maintain the CRAN packages forrest and orcidtr and the PyPI package bibaudit, which verifies a bibliography field by field against Crossref, DataCite and PubMed, and write paper-template, for writing papers in Markdown. Originally from San Marino 🇸🇲 and currently based in Spain 🇪🇸.

Research Interests

Cancer epidemiology: environmental and social determinants.
Causal inference in observational studies.
Evidence triangulation.

Education

University Expert Diploma in Advanced Methods of Applied Statistics (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain).
PhD in Biomedicine (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain).
M.Sc. in Quantitative and Computational Biology (University of Trento, Italy).
B.Sc. in Biotechnology (University of Parma, Italy).

News & Updates

November 2026 Starting a Juan de la Cierva fellowship at CNIO (2026–2029).

September 2026 Completed the University Expert Diploma in Advanced Methods of Applied Statistics (UNED).

June 2026 Starting a new position as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Group, CNIO.

Contact

You can find me on GitHub, ORCiD, Google Scholar, LinkedIn, and Bluesky.

--- title: "About" page-layout: full --- # Lorenzo Fabbri **Postdoctoral Fellow** at the *[Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Group](https://www.cnio.es/investigacion-e-innovacion/programas-cientificos/programa-de-genomica-del-cancer/grupo-de-epidemiologia-genetica-y-molecular/)*, [Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO)](https://www.cnio.es/). ## About Me I am a cancer epidemiologist focused on the environmental and social determinants of cancer. As a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) in Madrid, I work on pancreatic and bladder cancer and hold a Juan de la Cierva fellowship (2026–2029). Before joining CNIO, I held a postdoctoral fellowship in the Rakislova Lab at ISGlobal, working on the cancer genomics of vulvar and penile squamous cell carcinoma. My research combines transparent causal-inference methods with evidence-triangulation strategies to strengthen causal conclusions from observational data. I completed my PhD in Biomedicine at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2021–2025) within the Childhood and Environment group at ISGlobal, under the supervision of Prof. Martine Vrijheid and Dr. Léa Maitre, working on early-life environmental exposures and neurodevelopment in the HELIX and ATHLETE cohorts. Alongside my research, I am pursuing further graduate training in public health (LSHTM and UNED), social inequalities (UNED), theoretical statistics (the Open University), and economics (UOC). I also build open-source tools for reproducible research: I lead the [etverse](https://etverse.github.io/) ecosystem for transparent causal inference, maintain the CRAN packages [forrest](https://cran.r-project.org/package=forrest) and [orcidtr](https://cran.r-project.org/package=orcidtr) and the PyPI package [bibaudit](https://lorenzofabbri.github.io/bibaudit/), which verifies a bibliography field by field against Crossref, DataCite and PubMed, and write [paper-template](https://github.com/lorenzoFabbri/paper-template), for writing papers in Markdown. Originally from San Marino 🇸🇲 and currently based in Spain 🇪🇸. ## Research Interests - Cancer epidemiology: environmental and social determinants. - Causal inference in observational studies. - Evidence triangulation. ## Education - **University Expert Diploma in Advanced Methods of Applied Statistics** (*Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain*). - **PhD in Biomedicine** (*Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain*). - **M.Sc. in Quantitative and Computational Biology** (*University of Trento, Italy*). - **B.Sc. in Biotechnology** (*University of Parma, Italy*). ## News & Updates ::: {.news} **November 2026** Starting a Juan de la Cierva fellowship at CNIO (2026–2029). **September 2026** Completed the University Expert Diploma in Advanced Methods of Applied Statistics (UNED). **June 2026** Starting a new position as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Group, CNIO. ::: ## Contact You can find me on [GitHub](https://github.com/lorenzoFabbri), [ORCiD](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3031-322X), [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QbPv1H0AAAAJ&hl=en&sortby=pubdate), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorenzo-fabbri-303185383/), and [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/epilorenzo.bsky.social).