Patrizio Tremonte is an associate professor (qualified to full professor) of Food Microbiology at the Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences (DiAA), University of Molise, Italy. He received his Ph.D. in Food Biotechnology in 2005, and then carried out continuous and constant research and teaching activities in the field of food microbiology. He has numerous collaborations with international research institutions to his credit and was Visiting Reader at King's College London in 2022/23. He has recently directed projects aimed at studying the effect of biotechnological innovations on food quality and safety. To date (since 2004), he has published about 80 papers in various journals and is a member of the Scientific Society of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Microbiology. He partakes in extensive teaching activity in undergraduate and master's degree programs, and his teaching disciplines cover microbial biotechnology applied to the food industry and microbiological food quality and safety.