Benedetto Ruperti was born in Vicenza and graduated in Agricultural Sciences in 1994, at the University of Padova (UniPd), Italy. He got his PhD degree in 1998 in Crop Production, at the UniPd. Meanwhile, he participated in an Erasmus at the University of Nottingham (Department of Plant and Environmental Science), UK (1991), an EU-Comett scholarship at the IMBB, Greece (1994) and a grant from “Fondazione Ing. Aldo Gini” at the University of Nottingham (Department of Plant and Environmental Science), (1996/97). He carried out research activity at the University of Nottingham(1998), through a "CNR-British Council" grant, and at the UniPd with two fellowships (“Borsa di Studio”, 1999 –2001, and “Assegno di Ricerca”, from 2001–2002). He spent a research period at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research with a fellowship of the Max Planck Society. He was research assistant at the University of Udine and Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute of Biology II, University of Freiburg, (2003-2005). Since 2007 he became research assistant at the Unipd and since 2015 associate professor at DAFNAE Department. His research studies biochemical and molecular aspects of fruit ripening and abscission in trees, particularly integration of hormonal signals and action of ethylene. His activity also characterises apple responses to low oxygen during storage. He has published 67 papers in peer reviewed journals and has an overall H-index of 28 with 2466 total citations.