Raffaello Potestio received his PhD in Statistical and Biological Physics from the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste, Italy, in 2010, with a PhD thesis on coarse-grained models of protein structure and interactions. In November 2010 he started a postdoc in the Theory group at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPIP) in Mainz, Germany; here, between August 2013 and December 2017, he was Group Leader of the Statistical Mechanics of Biomolecules group. In 2017 he was awarded an ERC starting grant and moved to the University of Trento, Italy, where he currently is associate professor in Physics. His main research interests are the development and application of coarse-graining strategies for soft and biological matter, and the investigation of the relation between model resolution and physical properties in complex systems.