Dr. Giulia Franzoni is a Permanent Researcher at the Department of Animal Health, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sardegna, and a Contract Professor at the Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sassari, Italy. She completed her PhD studies in Life Sciences and Biotechnologies at the University of Sassari and holds a PhD in Microbial and Cellular Sciences from the University of Surrey, UK. She is involved in several national and international research projects and serves as the principal investigator (PI) of three projects funded by the Italian Ministry of Health. She has authored 60 papers published in international peer-reviewed journals. She also serves as a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Veterinary Immunology Workshop (EVIW) 2027 and as a member of the National Executive Board of the Italian Society for Cytometry and Cell Analysis (ISCCA). Her teaching activities include Infectious Diseases II. Her research interests focus on veterinary immunology, particularly porcine macrophage polarization and immune responses to African swine fever virus (ASFV) and other pathogens.