Dr. Isidoro Feliciello is a PI Molecular Biology Researcher at University of Naples Federico II. He has received international research fellowships, including an EC FP6 Marie Curie Transfer of Knowledge fellowship and a NEWFELPRO fellowship, and was awarded the 2015 Branimir Jernej Prize for research in molecular biology. He led the RegSat project on satellite-DNA-mediated gene expression and has collaborated on Croatian Science Foundation projects. He has published more than 20 scientific papers in international journals. His teaching includes Molecular Biology. His research interests focus on non-coding repetitive DNA, satellite DNA evolution and function, heterochromatin, epigenetics, genome dynamics, gene regulation, DNA repair, and cellular responses to stress.