Cinzia Calvio obtained her Master degree cum laude in Biology from the University of Pavia a degree in Applied Genetics from the Specialization School in “Applied Genetics” by the same University. She carried out her first postdoc at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg (D), and a second postdoc at the European Institute of Oncology - IEO, Milan. In 1999, she joined the Dept. of Genetics and Microbiology of the University of Pavia as supervisor of the departmental sequencing facility. In 2003, she joined the lab of Microbial Genetics at the Dept. of Biology and Biotechnology of the University of Pavia as an Assistant Professor in Genetics. Since 2009, she has been the PI of the Microbial Genetics Laboratory. She currently holds the chair of “Microbial Genetics” for the Master's program in Molecular Biology and Genetics. She acts as Editor for “Research in Microbiology” (from the Pasteur Institute) and for “Applied and Environmental Microbiology”, and as Academic Editor for “PLOS One”. She is on the Board of Reviewers for “Microbiology SGM” and regularly acts as a reviewer for several international journals. She is a member of the Italian Genetics Association (A.G.I.) and the European Federation of Biotechnology.