I am Vittorio Maria Mandrone, research fellow, at the Department of Science and Technology, Università degli studi del Sannio. I graduated cum laude in Biology (class LM6) from the Department of Science and Technology of the University of Sannio. My research activity concerns the morphology and physiology of animal models, in particular morphofunctional mechanisms that contribute to the maintenance of body homeostasis. I am also concerned with the study of the functional efficiency of different apparatuses for the evaluation of the welfare status of animals in livestock production as well as in model species, to the digestive and metabolic utilization of nutrients, physical, chemical, and nutritional characteristics of food, applied biotechnology with a particular attention to the use of bioactive molecules extracted from by-products and/or coproducts that have a proper influence on production performance, animal welfare, quality of animal products, and the consumer. I am experienced in several programming languages (Python, Java, R, C++) and in the use of image analysis microscopy software.