Luca Marelli is a Post–Doctoral Fellow at the European Institute of Oncology (IEO).

A member of the Science & Technology Studies Unit with the Lab of Stem Cell Epigenetics directed by Giuseppe Testa at IEO, his research interests focus on the governance of large–scale research consortia and biobanks, and the politics of innovation in Italy and the European Union.

After pursuing an education in philosophy at the University of Milan and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Luca completed a PhD in Foundations and Ethics of the Life Sciences at the European School of Molecular Medicine (SEMM), with a dissertation on the governance of translational induced Pluripotent Stem Cell research in the European Union and the United States.

While at graduate school at SEMM, he has received training in molecular biology through laboratory internships at IEO. In 2012 he was adjunct lecturer in Hermeneutics and Post-Modern Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy at Saengtham College Thailand. In 2013–2014, he was a Visiting Research Fellow in the Program on Science, Technology and Society at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.