Prof. Paola Roncada is Full Professor of Microbiology and Animal Infectious Diseases at the Department of Health Sciences in University of Catanzaro Magna Graecia. She is graduated in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology from the University of Milan in 1995 and she is PhD in Biochemistry. She is also Rector delegate for Internationalization. Her research interests include proteomics applied to One Health enviroment, including microbiology, zoonoses, microbiota, food safety. She has also developed lines of investigation into the proteomics of zoonotic microorganisms, including microbiota and metaproteomics, in topics ranging from animal health to food safety, including antimicrobial resistance. More recently, she has been involved in the immunoproteomics and bioinformatic prediction of immunoreactive epitopes in emerging zoonoses. From 2001 to 2018, she directed the Public Health Proteomics Unit of the Spallanzani Institute of Milan, in collaboration with the University of Milan. from 2019 to 2024 she has been President of the Italian Proteomics Association. She is also a EC member of Human Proteome Organisation.