Andrea received his BS and MSc in Medical Biotechnologies from the University of Udine (Italy), and his PhD from the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (Germany), as part of the International Max Planck Research School IMPRS-LS. During his doctoral studies he worked on tissue regeneration, investigating how stress signaling pathways control cell cycle progression in response to tissue injury. He now works as a data curator at the 4D Nucleome Data Coordination and Integration Center.