Giovanni Volpe is a professor in the physics department of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and head of the Soft Matter Lab. His research interests include deep learning, brain connectivity, statistical mechanics, and soft matter. He has authored more than 200 articles and reviews on these topics and has co-authored two books. He has also developed several software packages for microscopy (DeepTrack), deep learning (Deeplay), and brain connectivity (BRAPH).