Licia Iacoviello graduated in Medicine and specialized in Internal Medicine at the University of Naples Federico II. She received her PhD in Genetic Epidemiology at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. Since December 2016, she has been a full professor of Hygiene and Public Health at the University of Insubria of Varese. She has been working for many years on the impact of genes and environment and their interaction on cardiovascular risk and on the role of dietary habits in the development of metabolic diseases, cardio-cerebrovascular disease, and cancer. She has developed great experience in the organization and management of epidemiological studies, such as multicenter cohort studies, and in organizing clinical trials of dietary supplements and functional foods in subjects with cardiovascular risk factors. Since 2005, she has coordinated the Moli-sani Study, a large cohort study involving over 24,000 people aged over 35 years. She has been a member of the Subcommittee for Cardiovascular Risk Prevention of Italian Health Ministry and is a member of the “Scientific Advisory Board” del Department of Population Health dell’ Institute of Health of Luxemburg. Licia Iacoviello has published 340 scientific articles in international "peer reviewed" journals. She has been included by the VIA Academy in the list of Top Italian Scientists with an H-index=60 and 13,998 total citations.