Francesco Gualdrini studied Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Bologna (Italia) receiving his MSc in 2009 after a thesis with Prof. Arturo Sala (ICH -London). In 2010 he started his PhD by joining the lab of Sir. Richard Treisman at the LRI-CRUK (now part of the Francis Crick Institute) where he gained specific expertise in genomics and computational biology. In 2017 he joined the lab of Prof. Natoli aiming to model and integrate signalling, metabolic and transcriptional changes in activated macrophages.