Professor Gerardo Adesso is a Theoretical Physicist who works in areas relating to Quantum Information Theory. Gerardo completed his undergraduate degree in Physics at the University of Salerno in Italy, which is where he first discovered his passion for quantum mechanics. Gerardo went on to study for his PhD at the University of Salerno which he obtained in 2007. His PhD included a year with the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. His PhD research focused on the characterisation of entanglement in continuous-variable quantum systems, and this is a subject in which he is now regarded as a leading expert. He is now a Professor at the University of Nottingham where he is head of a research team within the Centre for the Mathematical and Theoretical Physics of Quantum Non-Equilibrium Systems. His excellence in leadership has been praised by the University of Nottingham Student Union who awarded him the University Staff Oscar for Best Research Supervisor in 2015 and 2016. As a physicist in a School of Mathematics one of the challenges Gerardo faces is his work being considered too “physicsy” although his work can at the same time be determined too theoretical or abstract for some physics journals. So the main challenge he faces is striking the balance, which he says he strives to achieve by maintaining a close collaboration with both communities, and by making sure he presents his papers “so as not to compromise on rigour on one hand, and to make my results accessible to a broad audience on the other hand.” Gerardo hopes that his research will allow him to understand the deep foundational aspects of quantum mechanics and if there are any limits to its applicability. His advice for young mathematicians and physicists is: “Do what you love and love what you do.”