Gianantonio Battistuzzi obtained the Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Modena (Italy) in 1996, under the supervision of Prof. M. Sola, working on the purification and the characterization of the solution behavior of electron-transfer metalloproteins. After a period in the laboratories of Professors H. Witzel and B. Krebs at the University of Münster, he held a postdoctoral position at the University of Modena, where he was appointed Assistant Professor of Inorganic Chemistry in 1999. In 2001, he was appointed Associate Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. His main research field concerns the understanding of the molecular determinants of the structural and functional properties of electron transfer (ET) metalloproteins and redox metalloenzymes. He is interested in the behavior of immobilized native and mutated mitochondrial cytochromes c, to explore their possible use as costituents of protein-based nano-bio-sensors.