Prof. Dr. Silvia Crognale is an Associate Professor at the Department for Innovation in Biological, Agro-food and Forest Systems (DIBAF), University of Tuscia. Before that, she worked as an Assistant Professor, Senior Researcher in the General and Applied Microbiology Laboratory, and Senior lecturer of the "General and Environmental Microbiology" and "Fermentation Biotechnology" courses from 2004 to 2020. She completed her Master's study in Biological Science and her Ph.D. in Food Biotechnology at the University of Tuscia in 1999 and 2004, respectively.