Vincenzo Micale is an Associate Professor of Pharmacology at the Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy. He was a visiting researcher at the Max-Plank Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany, at the Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, at the National Instate Mental Health, Klecany, Czech Republic, and at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma. In 1999, he earned his Medical Degree at the University of Catania; in 2004, he earned his specialization in Pharmacology at the University of Catania, and, in 2008, he earned a Ph.D. in Neuropharmacology at the University of Catania. To date, he has over 60 publications in international, peer-reviewed scientific journals, with more than 3700 citations (h-index=34, in Scopus).