Dr. Venkata Satagopam is a Head of Clinical and Translational Informatics group, LCSB, University of Luxembourg and Technical Coordinator (TeC) of ELIXIR-Luxembourg Node.  Before joining LCSB, between 2004-2012 he worked as a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist at the EMBL, Heidelberg. Before EMBL he worked as a Bioinformatics Scientist at LION bioscience AG, Heidelberg. He is having 25 years of working experience in various bioinformatics fields including Data Integration and Knowledge Management; Clinical and Translational Data Curation, Harmonisation, Integration and Analysis; Dynamic Visual Analytics; Text-mining; Deep learning and advanced AI/ML technologies and has published 100 publications. He obtained his PhD from Technical University Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany in the field of Bioinformatics. He is an associate editor of Frontiers in Systems Biology, co-chair of ISCB Education Committee involved in the organisation of several conferences, workshops, code/data hackathons.