I currently work at the Department of Biology at the University of Naples "Federico II". My fields of research are in Biochemistry and in Microbiology, focusing my attention on the development of new antimicrobial molecules to fight bacterial resistance problem. In particular my research is based on the identification of human cryptic antimicrobial peptides (CAMPs) by in silico screening, their production throught recombinant expression system and their functional characterization (antimicrobial - antibiofilm - immunomodulation - antinflammatory activity). I am also interested to develop an efficient strategy to immobilize CAMPs on surfaces to create devices which could be very interesting in biomaterial industry.