Danilo Vona is a researcher in Organic Chemistry at the Chemistry Department of the University of Bari “Aldo Moro” (Italy). He is in charge of the project “Algambiente” (POR Puglia FESR FSE 2014-2020 REFIN - Research for Innovation), regarding bioremediation of marine ecosystem. He specialized in interfacing biological components with inorganic and organic functional materials, in the frame of the European project on Hybrid Electronics Based on Photosynthetic Organisms (HyPhOE, FET-OPEN-01-2016-2017). During his PhD in organic chemistry he worked on biohybrid systems based on biosilica extracted from diatoms microalgae. He has a degree in Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology.