Lorenzo Pecoraro is Associate Professor at College of Pharmaceutical Science & Moganshan Research Institute at Deqing County, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China. He received his PhD in Applied Environmental Sciences and Technologies at the University of Siena, Italy (2010), and his MSc in Natural Sciences at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (2002). He worked as Associate Professor at School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China (2018-2024), and as Postdoctoral Researcher at the State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (2016-2018), Center for Biotechnology & BioMedicine and Division of Life & Health Sciences, Tsinghua University and The National Orchid Conservation Center of China, Shenzhen, China (2014-2016), Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia (2011-2013), and University of Pavia, Italy (2010). His research group interests mainly focus on: a) fungal and bacterial biotechnology, bioremediation, medicinal mushrooms; b) microbial taxonomy and community ecology, network analysis; c) environmental microbiology for the study of microbial communities in different habitats using molecular analysis, with particular attention to human-health-related microbes; d) plant-fungus interactions, including mycorrhizal associations and endophytic fungi, especially in medicinal plants; e) animal-associated microbes, gut microbiome analysis.