Prof. Carlo Rivolta obtained his PhD in Molecular Genetics at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He completed his postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Prof. Thaddeus Dryja at Harvard Medical School, USA. After working for one year as a Harvard Medical School Instructor, he has been at the University of Lausanne since 2004. Most recently, Carlo was Head of the Medical Genetics Unit at the Department of Computational Biology. He is also a full Professor and Chair of Medical Genetics, Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, at the University of Leicester, UK. He is a medical geneticist, with specific expertise in genomics, large-scale experimental approaches, and next-generation sequencing in relationship to ophthalmic conditions. He has a strong background and skills in bioinformatics, statistics, and computer programming, in addition to competencies in molecular biology and classic human genetics. His interests include molecular genetics of hereditary retinal degenerations and genetic conditions with elevated allelic heterogeneity, as well as computational approaches to genomics of monogenic to complex diseases, with specific interest in quasi-Mendelian conditions, modifier genes, and oligogenic inheritance.