Fabio Palumbo has been a fixed-term researcher (type B) at the Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals, and Environment, University of Padua, since June 2022 in the SSD AGR/07 - Agricultural Genetics. In 2014, he obtained a Master's Degree in Biotechnologies for Food Science at the University of Padua and in 2018, he obtained a Doctorate in Crop Sciences at the same University. From 2016 to 2017, he spent 6 months at the Crop and Soil Sciences Department, University of Georgia (GA, USA), for the establishment of an association map in chicory aimed at identifying the gene involved in nuclear male sterility. From 2019 to 2020, he was a visiting researcher for 6 months at the CSIRO Agriculture and Food Center (Adelaide, Australia). Since 2021, he has been a member of the Italian Society of Agricultural Genetics (SIGA).