Francesco has an M.Sc. in Medical Biotechnology and a Ph.D. in Experimental Pathology. He developed an expertise in Bioinformatics, Genomics and Statistical Genetics. He previously worked at UCL, where he first developed the analysis pipelines for UCL Genomics, the NGS facility of the campus. He then led Bioinformatics at the Centre for Translational Genomics, a partnership between the ULC Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital. He moved to Aarhus University as Associate Professor of Genomics and Bioinformatics, where he led the Bioinformatics analyses in Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia projects within the iPSYCH consortium. Later, he worked for two years in QIAGEN Bioinformatics, as part of the Global Product Management team for the CLC portfolio. Before joining the University of Pavia as Associate Professor of Bioinformatics, Francesco worked as Head of Bioinformatics for the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, NIBSC in UK.