Raffaele A. Calogero

Raffaele Calogero is a Full Professor of Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics and serves as the Principal Investigator (PI) of the Bioinformatics and Genomics core lab (BGcore) at the Molecular Biotechnology Center in Torino. He began his academic career as an Associate Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Naples in 1992 and later founded the B&Gu lab  at the University of Turin in 1998.

From 2000 to 2010, his research primarily focused on transcriptomics data analysis and mining, emphasizing microarray technology and, subsequently, Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data analysis. He is also a co-founder of the Reproducible Bioinformatics Project, a collaborative effort aimed at advancing reproducible workflows in genomics research. Currently, his research is centered on developing workflows for single-cell and spatial data analysis, and development of reproducible AI approaches for natural language programming for life scientists.

Between 2002 and 2010, Prof. Calogero collaborated with Affymetrix to conduct training courses on microarray data analysis for biologists. Since 2010, he has actively participated in bioinformatics training at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg and has also provided NGS data analysis courses in partnership with Illumina in Italy and DUKE-NUS in Singapore.

Prof. Calogero holds several leadership roles, including serving as the President of the Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS), the University of Torino representative at the General Assembly of the Elixir Italian Node, co-lead of the Elixir Single Cell Omics community, co-coordinator of the Elixir IT single-cell Omics community. member of the management committee for the Elixir IT node, and he is part of the scientific committee for the CINI InfoLife lab.