Cristian Cosentino, PhD, is a senior bioinformatics field application scientist at QIAGEN Digital Insights (QDI) with over 15 years of academic experience in molecular physiology and genetics. In his current role, Cristian works closely with customers to educate, support and train on QDI software and solutions for clinical and discovery NGS applications. Prior to this, Cristian worked at Hamilton Robotics as an international application scientist, providing customer support for the automation of NGS library preparation projects. He also worked at Illumina as a field application scientist, running customer-facing trainings on NGS instruments and library preparations. Cristian obtained his PhD in plant molecular physiology from the Technical University of Darmstadt and completed his post-doctoral fellowship in human genetics and optogenetics from the University of Studies of Milan.