Vito Martella (1970, Italy) is a Doctor in Veterinary Medicine with a PhD in infectious diseases of animals. He is full professor at the Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari, Italy. The main research expertise covers the areas of animal health, with specific regard to enteric viruses of animals, to viruses with zoonotic potential and to virus discovery. He has published over 360 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals, with more the 13000 citations. As of June 2021, the H index (Scopus) is 58.