Dr. Monica G.L. Ermolli, she is working for the European Commission since 1996, starting in the Institute for the Environment, as student. She is graduated in Molecular Biology at University of Milan in 1997. In 2002, she was recruited in the GMO&Biotechnology Unit, Institute for Health and Consumers Protection, as scientific project leader. In 2007, she got a PhD in Food Biotechnology at the Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna. Today, she is working in the team of the Knowledge Centre for Food and Nutrition Security, Food Security Unit, in the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC).