Livio Antonielli, PhD, is a Research Engineer at the Bioresources Unit of the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. His work focuses on microbial communities, whole genome, and metagenome sequencing analysis. With over ten years of experience as a big data analyst, he has contributed to omics-based experiments related to human and animal health, food safety, and agricultural and environmental projects. He earned his Ph.D. in Agricultural Biotechnology from the Department of Applied Biology in Perugia, Italy. He later joined the Edmund Mach Foundation in Trento, where he focused on plant microbiome data. At the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, he has played a key role in establishing a platform for high-throughput data processing and storage. His responsibilities include setting up bioinformatic workflows, assisting researchers with advanced multivariate statistics and machine learning, and providing services to companies, organizations, research institutes, and universities. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7140-8359