Prof. Alessandra Modestic received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the University of Florence in 1991 and received a Ph.D. in Biotechnology at the Cranfield Institute of Technology (UK) in 1993. She currently works as a Full Professor of Applied Biology at the University of Florence. She is also a Coordinator of the "Systematic proteomics and applied biology laboratory” Department of Experimental and Clinical Biomedical Sciences "Mario Serio" University of Florence. She has contributed to the field of the study of protein oxidation (cellular and plasma) and differential proteomics in eukaryotic cells subjected to different types of stimuli.