Gualtiero Alvisi is an Associate Professor of Microbiology at the University of Padua. He obtained a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biotechnologies from Bologna University, Italy, in 2005, under the supervision of Dr. Alessandro Ripalti, working on the characterization of the nuclear import pathway of Human Cytomegalovirus DNA polymerase holoenzyme. During his PhD and subsequent postdoctoral studies, he worked for 3 years in the group of Prof. David Jans, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Monash University (Clayton, Victoria, Australia). In 2007, he returned to the University of Bologna to continue his studies on Herpesviridae DNA polymerases under the supervision of Dr. Alessandro Ripalti, at the Department of Specialistic and Experimental Medicine. In 2009, he moved to the University of Heidelberg to join the group of Prof. Ralf Bartenschlager at the Department of Molecular Virology to study the relationship between Dengue and the Hepatitis C Virus and the host cell, focusing on the identification of host factors important for viral replication and lipid metabolism. From 2011, he moved to the University of Padua, where he established his own research group. The focus of Gualtiero Alvisi’s research is the relationship between infectious agents and infected cells, with particular attention to protein–protein interactions and nucleocytoplasmic trafficking, allowing virus replication and promoting disease establishment.