Dr. Mirco Vacca completed his PhD in Food Microbiology at the Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro from 2017 to 2020. Since 2021, he has served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Soil, Plant, and Food Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro. His research focuses on the gut microbiota and investigates how dietary components can promote host health through microbial metabolism. Additional areas of interest in his research include prebiotics; probiotics; polyphenols; chronic kidney disease (CKD); celiac disease; very low protein diet; Mediterranean diet; and gluten-free diet; etc.