Andrea Boni studied Biotechnology at the San Raffaele University in Milan before moving for his PhD at the EMBL laboratory in Heidelberg (Germany) where he worked on microscopy screening of membrane nuclear protein dynamics. After completing his doctoral work he moved to the lab of Prof. Prisca Liberali at FMI in Basel (Switzerland) to work on light-sheet development and imaging of intestinal organoids. In 2017 Andrea co-founded with Petr Strnad Viventis Microscopy based in Lausanne (Switzerland) where he was responsible of the imaging applications and sales. After the integration of Viventis Microscopy in Leica Microsystems he joined Leica in May 2024 as Business Excellence Director.