Prof. Adriano Sofo is an associate professor of agricultural chemistry and plant biology at the University of Basilicata. He spent three years (1999–2002) at the University of Basilicata, Italy, with a doctorate in crop productivity. From 2000 to 2001, he was also a researcher at the National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), Italy. For postdoctoral training, in 2002, he worked at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Heraklion, Greece, with a Marie Curie Fellowship. He then trained as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Basilicata, where he also worked as an assistant professor in agricultural chemistry. In 2015, he was awarded a Fulbright Research Scholar grant to spend at the University of California. In 2017, he received a fellowship award from the OECD Co-operative Research Programme at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. In 2019, he was a visiting professor at Kindai University, Nara, Japan, under a JSPS Research Scholar Grant. In 2021, he benefited from a DAAD Research Stay at the University of Bremen, Germany. In 2022, he was awarded a Visiting Faculty Program Fellowship at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. In 2023, he was a visiting professor at the University of California. Since 2022, he has been a member of the EGU’s Biodiversity Task Force.