Dr. Riccardo Calvani is a researcher at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Rome, Italy. He received a Bachelor of Science in Medical Biotechnology and a Master of Science in Medical, Molecular, and Cellular Biotechnology from Sapienza Università di Roma in 2003 and 2005, respectively. He holds a Ph.D. in the Physiopathology of Nutrition and Metabolism from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2009. He served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Geriatrics, Neurology and Orthopedics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, from 2009 to 2012 and as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Crystallography, Italian National Research Council (CNR), from 2012 to 2014. He worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Geriatrics, Neurosciences and Orthopedics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Rome, Italy, from 2014 to 2019, as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden) from 2020 to 2021, and as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario “Agostino Gemelli” IRCCS from 2019 to 2023. His research interests include mitochondrial dysfunction, protein misfolding, and neuroinflammation.