Luciana Di Gregorio is a Permanent Researcher, PhD. at the AgriFood Sustainability, Quality and Safety Lab, Biotechnologies and Agroindustry Division, in the Department for Sustainability, ENEA, Rome, Italy. She received her M.Sc. degree (summa cum Laude) in Biology in 2014 and her Ph.D. degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in 2019. Her scientific career has taken place in different academic institutions (University of Naples, Italy; University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy; Water Research Institute of National Research Council, IRSA-CNR; Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Magdeburg, Germany; ENEA Casaccia Research Centre, Rome, Italy). Her work in scientific research projects mainly concerns agro-environmental/food microbiology and biotechnology related to the safety, quality and sustainability of products and processes. Her interests include: agri-food microbiology, food safety, the selection and characterization of new strains from food and soil matrices, molecular and flow cytometry-based applications for food and soil-associated bacteria.