After retiring in November 2017 as Associate Professor of Applied Biology, she was appointed Professor Alma Mater at the Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna Medical School, Bologna, Italy, where she was Teacher and Mentor in Doctorate Schools and in the Schools of Medicine and Surgery and of Pharmacy and Biotechnology and she ran her own Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology. During her early scientific formation, she was Fogarty International Fellow in 1975-77 in NIH. Member of several Scientific Societies, reviewer for ISI Journals and in Grant Awarding Committees, editor of “Cells”, recipient of several research grants from Institutional and private funds. Major current research topics: • Oxidative stress in autistic children: studies on erythrocyte membrane; metabolic alterations and biomarkers • Oxidative stress and the role of iron-handling proteins in cardiomyocyte cultures from Friedreich’s Ataxia patients • The impact of electromagnetic fields on living matter • Strategies to increase cardiac resistance to Ischemia/Reperfusion injury: Intermittent hypoxia, exercise training and the role of free radicals • Transcriptomic analysis of human skeletal muscles to evaluate the impact of exercise training on the maintenance of muscle efficiency in the elderly Bibliometric indices: 87 full publications in peer-reviewed journals; H-index: 24 (Scopus). Mean Impact factor of publications: about 3.2.