Cogolati was born on 12 March 1989 in Liège, Belgium.[3] When he was fourteen, Cogolati joined Ecolo.[4] He eventually obtained a master's degree in law from KU Leuven in 2013, and then a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School in 2014.[3] The following year, in 2015, he became a municipal councillor of Huy representing the party.[4] Simultaneously, he worked as a researcher for the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies at KU Leuven from 2014 to 2019.[3]
During the 2019 Belgian federal election, he ran to be a member of the Chamber of Representatives for Liège, a seat he won.[5] Since becoming a representative, he has particularly focused on the recognition of the Persecution of Uyghurs in China. Due to his campaigning regarding Uyghurs, particularly for submitting a resolution condemning the persecution of Muslims in Xinjiang, he was put on a Chinese sanctions list.[6] The Chinese government accused him of harming Chinese sovereignty.[6] Following this, the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sophie Wilmès, affirmed that she supported Cogolati.[6] He was also the target of a digital attack in 2023, which was linked to the Chinese state hacking group, APT31.[7]
In 2022, he announced he would teach courses at the Catholic University of Graben, which is located in North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[8] Cogolati was not re-elected to parliament in the 2024 Belgian federal election.
