Giuliano Manetti graduated in 2019 in Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at “La Tuscia” University, and soon after attended a traineeship at the research center NIAB EMR (UK), working on verticillium wilt of hops. In June 2020, he won a research fellowship at the Research Centre for Plant Protection and Certification (CREA-DC) of Rome, and focused on diagnostic methods, infection pathways and control strategies of some fungal pathogens of wheat. Since January 2022, he has been a PhD student of CREA-DC Rome/Sapienza University working on a project on the decline syndrome of olive trees in the Apulia region (Italy) associated with Xylella fastidiosa and Botryosphaeriaceae fungi.