Paola Bezzi is a Principal Investigator in the Department of Fundamental Neurosciences, University of Lausanne in Switzerland, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Rome Sapienza in Italy. She completed her Ph.D. studies in Milan at the University of Milan, Italy. With more than 8000 citations, she has authored over 50 papers in internationally recognized journals such as Nature, Nature Neuroscience, Molecular Psychiatry, and Biological Psychiatry, focusing on the role of astrocytes in brain physiology and pathology.