Corrado Cali

I trained an electronic engineer at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. After my MSc in 2006, in the lab of Henry Markram at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland), I became interested in neuroscience. In the same year I joined the lab of Paola Bezzi at UNIL (University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland), where I got a PhD in 2012. My research was focused in elucidating the physiological role of astroglial cells in the modulation of synaptic transmission. After one year as postdoctoral fellow in Graham Knott’s lab, where I enriched my skills in volume electron microscopy, I joined Pierre Magistretti’s lab in KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia). Here, I investigated the mechanisms of astrocyte-neuron metabolic coupling using morphological and 3D imaging particular, pioneered the use of VR in basic neuroscience. In 2020 I joined the University of Turin (Italy), where I am associate professor of Human Anatomy.