Dr. Loredana Canfora is a researcher at Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l’Analisi dell’economia Agraria. She has co-authored more than 40 IF-indexed papers, most of which were in journals with IF 3.0-5.5. She has published papers and proceedings in national and international peer-reviewed non-IF-indexed journals, and is the author of ~80 abstracts of contributions at national and international conferences. She has also authored 3 book chapters. She is the PMO of the Excalibur Project (Grant n. 817946). She is an Associated Editor of Frontiers in Microbiology, Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Applied Microbiology, and Guest Associate Editor of Frontiers in Microbiotechnology. She was a member of the EIP-AGRI FG36 on soil salinity. Her research interests include soil fertility, soil analysis, fertilizers, sustainability, plant breeding, plant biotechnology, biodiversity, soil, environment, and environmental impact assessment.