Prof. Monica Dinu received her MS in Nutritional Sciences and Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Florence in 2014 and 2017, respectively. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Human Nutrition at the Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence. She is the coordinator of the Young Working Group of the Italian Society of Human Nutrition (SINU) and a co-owner of the MEDI-LITE patent, a software for calculating adherence to the Mediterranean diet. Prof. Monica Dinu's research focuses on dietary interventions to assess the impact of different dietary patterns on health outcomes, with a particular interest in chrononutrition. Since 2023, she has been involved in the “PROMENADE” project, funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU, involving three Italian universities. The project aims to evaluate the role of ultra-processed foods in modulating the effects of the Mediterranean diet on both human and planetary health.