Riccardo De Feo earned a Master's degree in Physics from Sapienza University of Rome in 2017 with a thesis on diffusion kurtosis imaging for healthy ageing. He is currently enrolled in the PhD course in Morphogenesis and Tissue Engineering and is currently applying machine learning techniques to MRI data.

Since July 2018 he has been working for the Enrico Fermi Centre and from January 2019 he will move to the University of Eastern Finland in Kuopio working on automated segmentation of rodent MRI data with deep learning techniques, as an exchange student of the European MICROBRADAM project. The aim of this project will be to develop novel contrasts for MRI, particularly sensitive to tissue demyelination and remyelination.