Dr. Maria Cammareri holds a permanent position as a Researcher at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute of Biosciences and Bioresources (IBBR), Research Division of Portici. She received her B.S. in Agricultural Sciences at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy (1996), her Master in Plant Biotechnology at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy (1999), and her Ph.D. in Plant Biotechnology at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy (2004). Her research activity is currently focused on the following topics: development, characterization, and use of new mapped genetic resources in tomatoes; genomic approaches to identify regulatory networks underlying tomato fruit quality during ripening and post-harvest; identification and functional characterization of key genes involved in nutritional and merceological quality in pepper; and metabolic engineering of secondary metabolite pathways for the production of health-related compounds.