Prof. Dr. Renato Fani has been an Associate Professor of Genetics (since 2002) at the Department of Biology at the University of Florence. He graduated in Biological Sciences in 1979 at the University of Florence. In the same year, he won a scholarship in Molecular Genetics from the National Academy of Agriculture and researched as a fellow at the Genetics, Biochemistry, and Evolutionary Laboratory of the University of Pavia. In 1988, he received a Ph.D. in Genetics (Genetics and Molecular Biology) at the aforementioned Genetics Laboratory. He directs the Microbial and Molecular Evolution Laboratory at the Department of Biology at the University of Florence, whose main research lines are (1) Molecular Evolution. (2) Analysis of microbial populations isolated from natural environments. (3) Isolation of new natural antibiotics. (4) Analysis of microbial communities producing electricity.