Gabriele Andrea Lugli is an Assistant Professor of Microbiology at the University of Parma in Italy. He graduated from the University of Parma in 2010 and received a Master’s degree in Industrial Biotechnology in 2013. Then, he received his Ph.D. in Biotechnology in 2017 and carried out his postdoctoral research work at the Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences, and Environmental Sustainability at the University of Parma in Italy. He is an Associate Editor of BMC Microbiology, Microorganisms, and Microbiome Research Reports. He is a member of the Microbiome Research Hub, an interdepartmental center of the University of Parma, and also a member of the Computational Microbiology Unit of the Probiogenomics Lab in Parma. His research interests include microbial genomics, metagenomics, gut microbiota, bifidobacteria, and bacteriophages, focusing on computational microbiology applied to complex microbial communities. He has explored the functionality of the microbiome in terms of microbe–host interactions in humans and other mammals and contributed to the development of metagenomic tools for the profiling of bacterial communities.