Andrea graduated at University of Pavia (Italy) with an MSc in Industrial Biotechnology carrying out his thesis under the supervision of Professor Luigi Casella, on neuromelanin synthetic models. Andrea worked as a fellow, at Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche-CNR of Segrate (Milan, Italy), carrying out a project on preparation and characterization of synthetic melanins . He received his PhD in Biomolecular science and Biotechnologies (Pavia, Italy) under the supervision of Professor Luigi Casella. Currently Andrea is a postdoctoral research fellow at the chemistry department of University of Pavia. His work is focused on the synthesis and the structural characterization of neuromelanin analogs with proteins, lipids and metal ions in order to understand their putative role in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s Disease.