Dr. Antonella M.C. Aresta received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 1993. She is currently a Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the Department of Biosciences, Biotechnology and Environment, University of Bari, Italy. Her research focuses on the development and validation of analytical methods, mainly based on chromatographic techniques coupled with mass spectrometry. Her scientific interests include the determination of pesticides in environmental matrices, the analysis of drugs and tumor markers in biological fluids, and the detection of mycotoxins in food, and proteomics.