Olmo Piana got his bachelor degree in physics in 2013 in Torino, Italy, after which he started an Erasmus Mundus Master Program in Astrophysics. This European project gave him a first taste of the semi-nomadic life that eventually brought him to Groningen in 2017. Here he started a PhD in Astrophysics, focusing on modeling the co-evolution of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies in the very early phases of the universe. When he is not compulsively typing on a keyboard he enjoys hiking in the mountains – when in Italy – and looking for alternatives to it when in the Netherlands.