Dr. Federica Vianello received her master's degree in health biology from Padua University. For her master's degree internship, she worked in Prof. Carlos Sebastian’s lab at the University of Barcelona in Spain thanks to an Erasmus Traineeship Fellowship. She recently won a fellowship with Prof. Leanza's laboratory at the University of Padova. Her research interests include cancer biology and metabolism, in particular the interplay between transglutaminase 2 and mitochondrial metabolism during phenotype switching in melanoma.