Fabrizio Dal Piaz is an Assistant Professor in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology at the Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Salerno. He completed his PhD in Chemistry in 2002 from the University “Federico II” of Naples. From 2002 to 2004, he worked as a scientific manager and researcher at the "Laboratory of Bio-analytical Mass Spectrometry" in the Interdepartmental Biotechnology Research Centre at the University of Bologna. From 2004 to 2006, he worked as a young researcher at the Department of Pharmacy of the University of Salerno, leading a project on metabolomics and proteomics of Salvia ssp plants. In 2000, he was at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France, working with Dr Marlin Friesen to develop new methods to identify DNA polymorphisms by mass spectrometry. In 2002, he received the “Giacomino Randazzo” prize from Società Chimica Italiana for the best PhD thesis in Chemistry.