Prof. Perocchi trained in Genomics and Molecular Biology as a graduate student at the EMBL- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (2003-2007) and as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (2007-20011). During her postdoctoral studies she discovered and defined the molecular components involved in mitochondrial calcium transport. She continued her career as Research Group Leader in Functional Genomics at the Helmholtz Center of Munich (20012-201) and as an Associate Professor in Systems Biology of Metabolism at the Technical University of Munich (2021-current). Ongoing research studies in her laboratory seek to lay the foundation for a systems-level understanding of Ca2+-dependent signal transduction cascades in human mitochondria to advance basic and disease biology.

Denis Vecellio Reane is an Assistant Professor at the University of Padova, where he conducts research within the Department of Biomedical Sciences. He earned his Ph.D. in Biosciences and Biotechnologies from the University of Padova and completed a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at Helmholtz Munich. His research focuses on the regulation of mitochondrial calcium signalling and its pivotal role in both physiological processes and pathological conditions.