Attilio Converti is a Full Professor of Chemistry and Fermentation Biotechnology at Genoa University (UNIGE), a teacher of Industrial biotechnology with a Master's in Chemical Engineering and of Industrial microbiology & fermentation biotechnology with a Bachelor's in Biotechnology. Member of the Department of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering (DICCA) and of the homonymous PhD. Responsible for the Academic Agreement for International PhD between the Universities of Genoa and São Paulo (USP) (Brazil). He graduated in Chemistry from, the Faculty of Science, University of Camerino (1982), discussing the thesis in Macromolecular Chemistry entitled “L-Tryptophan-2,3-dioxygenase: equilibrium with ethylisocyanide”, Laboratory of Molecular Biology. He is the author and co-author of more than 300 scientific publications in international journals.