Professor, Link Campus University, Dept. Life Sciences, Health and Health Professions, Rome, Italy Jan 2025 – Present Professor, Tuscia University, Viterbo, Italy 2005 – Dec 2024; 2001-2005 Researcher, Tuscia University, Viterbo, Italy; 2005-Dec 2024 Head of Laboratory of Functional Anatomy and Developmental Biology; Responsible for Comparative Anatomy and Zoology collection/SMA (2005-Jan 2025). Key Research Areas: Cardiac tissue engineering/regeneration (fish/mouse/human), toxicity/stress in fish immunology, comparative immunology in fish (AMPs, zebrafish), neuroblastoma differentiation. Education Master Degree in Biology; Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Experimental Aquaculture – Immunology Agricultural University of Wageningen, Wageningen, The Netherlands Feb 1995 – Dec 1998 Thesis: Ontogeny of the immune system of Fish