Thomas Pengo was born in Padua, Italy. He received the B.Sc and M.Sc. degrees in computer engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2003 and 2005, respectively and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, in 2010. During his doctoral years, he was a Visiting Scientist with the Centre for Biomedical Image Analysis, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, and with the Sudar Laboratory, Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA. After working on the analysis of super-resolution microscopy images for two years as a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Laboratory for Experimental Biophysics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, he is now with the Advanced Light Microscopy Unit, Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain, in the Luis Serrano Group.