Currently with the Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio (FTGM), Marcello Demi graduated in Electronic Engineering from the University of Florence, Italy, in 1985. From 1986 to 1987, he conducted research at the Institute of Clinical Physiology (IFC) of the Italian National Research Council with a grant from A.R.Med. (Association for Medical Research), and from 1988 to 1990, he was a Research Fellow at Tesak Fas Ltd. From 1991 to 2010, he was a Senior Scientist at Esaote Ltd and a Research Fellow at IFC, where he was head of the Computer Vision Group, and from 2002 to 2017, he taught the course Medical Image Processing at the Faculty of Physics, University of Pisa, Italy. With 100 scientific publications and 4 patents in his name, his research interests include filtering schemes inspired by the early stages of biological vision, ultrasound imaging, and lung ultrasound.