Luigi Milella is an Associate Professor in Pharmaceutical Biology, at the Department of Science, MSc in Pharmacy, University of Basilicata (Italy). He graduated in Pharmacy with a score of 110/110 at the University of Salerno in 2000. He attended a Ph.D. course in "Applied Biology" at the laboratories of Plant Genetics, Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Defense Agroforestry at the University of Basilicata from 2002 to 2006 and earned the title of Ph.D. on 23/02/2006. He has been a Visiting Professor at different European Universities and also at Oregon State University (USA). He is the Associate Editor of different journals indexed on WOS. He carries out research focused on the study of the chemical structure and biological activity of natural compounds coming from different sources, either foods or medicinal plant species. He also carries out studies on medicinal plants used in the folk medicine of European, Latin American, African, and Asian countries to isolate and characterize secondary metabolites with interesting biological activity.