Federica Semprucci is a researcher in the Department of Biomolecular Sciences at the University of Urbino. Semprucci studied natural sciences. She obtained the PhD title both in environmental sciences (2007) and in mechanisms of cell regulation: morpho-functional and evolutionary aspects (2011) at the University of Urbino. She was involved in numerous national research projects focused on the taxonomy, biology and ecology of invertebrates and, in particular, free-living nematodes. She was a task member in many projects at the University of Urbino (e.g. chemical composition of natural extracts and biological effects of single components: in vitro and in vivo anti-inflammaging analyses; targeted treatment of leishmaniasis by innovative drugs encapsulated in sugar-decorated liposomes) and has conducted scientific international collaborations with the University of South Florida; Hanyang University; the Natural History Museum of Denmark; Ifremer (France); University of Bizerte; University of Malaysia, Sabah; University of Vienna; National Institute of Biology; Marine Biology Station Piran; Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of RAS, Russia; Education and Extension Organization; Tehran and Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, West Bengal.