Valentina Virginia Ebani graduated in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 1993, before obtaining a PhD in 1998. She subsequently became a postdoctoral fellow and researcher in 2001 at the Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Pisa, within the scientific disciplinary field of “infectious diseases in animals”. She became an associate professor in 2020. She is a lecturer of the “Avian Pathology”, “Veterinary Hygiene”, and “Bacterial Infectious Diseases of Companion Animals” modules in the degree course of Veterinary Medicine and the postgraduate courses of “Animal Health” and “Pathology and Clinic of Companion Animals” at the University of Pisa. Her main research fields are zoonosis, arthropod-borne infections, antimicrobial resistance, and antibacterial activity of essential oils.