Alessandra Ricelli has been a researcher at Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Rome, Italy, since 2001. She teaches courses about food contamination and regulation at the Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Mediterranéennes (CIHEAM), Bari, Italy. She earned her PhD in Environmental Biology and her university degree in Biological Sciences both at the University of Rome “Sapienza”. Her primary field of research is the prevention and degradation of some of the most diffused mycotoxins on food commodities during the post-harvest period. She is a member of the “International Society for Mycotoxicology” and has published about 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals.