Dr. Luigi Mandrich is currently a Researcher at the Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystem at the Italian National Research Council (CNR). From 2008 to 2019, he was a researcher at the Institute of Protein Biochemistry (CNR). He graduated in Biological Sciences with distinction in 1997 at the University of Naples “Federico II”. He received his PhD in Industrial Biotechnology in 2004 at the University of Naples “Federico II”. He is an editorial board member for the journals “Frontiers in Marine Science”, “Cloning and Transgenesis”, and “Mediterranean Journal of Chemistry”. He is the head of the "Protein Engineering lab" at the Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystem (IRET). His main research activities are on biotechnologies (cheese making using vegetable rennets); active compounds extracted from vegetables, showing antiproliferative activity; and structural and phylogenetic analysis of proteins.