Stefania Arioli, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences (DeFENS), Università degli Studi di Milano. She earned her MSc degree (summa cum laude) in Food, Environmental and Agricultural Biotechnology in 2005 and her PhD in Food Biotechnology in 2009. Throughout her scientific career, she has worked in different academic institutions (University of Milan, Italy; University of Parma, Italy; University of Toronto, Canada; French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment, Thiverval-Grignon, France; Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil). She has developed academic and industrial collaborations at both the national and international level. Her research activity mainly focuses on the metabolism and physiology of lactic acid bacteria, antimicrobial resistance in food-associated bacteria, the selection and characterization of new probiotic strains and the development of flow cytometry-based applications for the enumeration and evaluation of the physiology of food-associated bacteria and probiotics.