Luigi Vitagliano currently works as a Research Director at the Institute of Biostructure and Bioimaging, IBB, Italian National Research Council. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences from the University “Federico II” of Naples, Italy. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Univerisity of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, where he runs the course “Design of Bioactive Compounds”. His research interests are focused on the structural interpretation of peptide and protein function by combining experimental and computational techniques. His activities have led to the publication of more than 200 papers in journals indexed in the Web of Science, including Science, Nature Cell Biology, Blood, Embo Journal, JACS, NAR, and PNAS (h-index 45). He has been an invited speaker to several national and international meetings including Gordon and Murnau conferences. He has also chaired the organizing committee of several national and international congresses/schools/workshops.