Roberta Battini is a Specialist in Pediatrics and Child Neuro-Psychiatry. She holds a degree in Medicine and Surgery and a Ph.D. in Developmental Neuropsychiatry (2003), all from the University of Pisa. She is an Associate Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine at the University of Pisa, Italy, and is responsible for the neurometabolic, neuromuscular, and rare diseases section of the IRCCS Stella Maris Foundation, Pisa, Italy. She attended, as an invited speaker or with oral or poster presentations, a lot of international and national conferences and workshops in pediatrics and child neurology and neurometabolic and rare disorders. Since her first neuropsychiatric research studies, she has always dedicated herself to the laboratory aspects of neurometabolic disorders, including, in particular, biochemical and genetic biomarkers. The main topics of both her clinical and research interests are neurodevelopmental disorders, including neurometabolic and neurodegenerative disorders, neuromuscular disorders, primary- and secondary-movement disorders, and rare diseases.