Basma Najar is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Agro-Environment sciences of the University of Pisa. Basma completed her Ph.D. at the Department of Pharmacy of the University of Pisa and her undergraduate studies at the University of Tunisia. Her research interests include phytochemical analyses of secondary metabolites of aromatic, medicinal, and food plant species. Basma has learned and applied both qualitative and quantitative methodologies: GC-MS and HPLC, as well as statistical analyses. During her Ph.D. she spent six months at the University of Malta in the Department of Biology under the supervisor of Professor Joseph Buhagiar where she deepened her knowledge of cell cultures, especially cancer cell lines. She has collaborated actively with researchers in several other disciplines, particularly veterinary science. Being originally from Tunisia has allowed her to be bilingual, and she speak both Arabic and French as a mother tongue. Having moved to the other side of the Mediterranean Sea helped her to learn the Italian language, as well as English, which was the language of study during her Ph.D. Basma serves as a guest editor in the Plant Journal and is one of the reviewers of the editorial board for the Frontiers in Plant Science journal; she also serves on the editorial board for the Natural Resources for Human Health and Medicon Agriculture & Environmental Sciences journals.