Graziano Pesole is full professor of Molecular Biology in the University of Bari A. Moro and Associate Researcher of CNR-IBIOM, Director of “Consorzio Interuniversitario Biotecnologie (Trieste), Head of the Italian Node of ELIXIR, the European Research Infrastructure for Life Science.
Bibliometric facts: h-index: 87 (Google scholar), 80 (ResearchGate), 73 (Scopus); peer-reviewed publications: >400; sum of Times Cited without self-citations: >30,000, Scopus link: http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=7005831630).
Graziano Pesole has since long carried out research activity in the fields of bioinformatics, comparative genomics and molecular evolution. His current research interests are focused on bioinformatics application for the management and analysis of next generation sequencing data, also at single-cell and spatial resolution.
He has developed several specialised databases and widely used analysis software and algorithms which are available as standalone software or through the web.
He leads a large interdisciplinary research group including molecular biologists, bioinformaticians and computer scientists.
He has been PI for several research projects funded by national (MIUR, CNR, Telethon, AIRC, AISM, ARISLA) and international (EU, NIH) agencies and currently leading several research projects funded by the Italian PNRR including the leadership of the Biocomputing spoke of the National Center for Gene Therapy and Drugs based on RNA technology (Total budget of the last 10 years: >10M€). He also filed several international patents.
He is member of the Editorial Board of several high-profile journals, and co-author of books on Bioinformatics, Genomics and Molecular Biology published by Italian (Zanichelli, Ambrosiana, Gnocchi) and international (Wiley) editors.