Federico Torta is a Research Assistant Professor at the Singapore Lipidomics Incubator (SLING), Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He is also co-director of the lipidomics unit of SingMass, the Singapore National Laboratory for Mass Spectrometry. He received his Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry from the University of Parma, Italy. His expertise includes sphingolipidomics, high-throughput technologies for the assessment of lipidomes in large human cohorts and the study of protein-lipid complexes.