Stefano Del Duca is a Full Professor at the Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna. He received his Ph.D. in Cellular Biology and Physiology at the Faculty of Science, University of Bologna, and then worked at the Institute of Pathological Anatomy and Histology, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Chiba University, Japan. In 1997, he joined the Department of Experimental and Evolutionary Biology at Bologna University, as a Researcher. He has 117 publications with 2323 citations and an h-index of 30 (Scopus, 1 January 2024).