Paolo has a cell biology background and he did his PhD and postdoctoral studies on membrane trafficking using light and electron microscopy approaches.  Since 2014, Paolo has been working in the Electron Microscopy Core Facility of the EMBL in Heidelberg, Germany. He has run a number of projects in collaboration with internal and external users. Among other things, he was involved in the implementation of 2D on-section CLEM when he joined the facility. Later on, he has become the volume EM expert in the team and his main current interest is the development of workflows and strategies based on multimodal imaging to optimize volume EM acquisitions.