Manuela Ceccarelli is an Associate Professor in Infectious Diseases at the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the "Kore" University of Enna.  She graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the Catholic University of Sacred Heart in 2012. She completed her specialty in Infectious and Tropical Diseases at the University of Messina in 2019. During her residency, she spent a year at the University of Pennsylvania,  Philadelphia, PA, USA. From 2020 to 2022 she was a Post-Doc at the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine of the University of Catania. From 2022 to 2023 she was a Senior Researcher at the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine of the University of Catania. She recently spent six months at University College Dublin to study the relationship between inflammation and cardiovascular disorders in people living with HIV.