Marco Capodiferro was born in Fondi, Lazio region, Italy. He graduated in Biology from the Sapienza University of Rome, specializing during his master's thesis in Neurobiology (2017). He did an internship of a year and a half at the Istituto Superiore di Sanita in Rome. He did a internship period at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Rome (from 2015 to 2017). During his academic studies, he mostly worked in vivo with animal models (rodents), but he performed several behavioral and molecular tests. Furthermore, he studied and he dealt with biological, environmental, behavioral, microbiological, molecular and biochemical methodologies. He also participated in many neuroscientific and biological conferences and seminars. He is now pursuing a PhD at the CSIC-IDAEA institute in Barcelona, ​​under the supervision of Dr Joan O. Grimalt in the context of the European project Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), called "Neurosome". His PhD program addresses the problems related with the occurrence of neurotoxicant and estrogenic stressors in environmental samples, foodstuffs and humans. For analytical experiments, he mastered several tecniques, using in particular the gas-chromatography equipped with electron capture detector, mercury advance atomic absorption spectrometer and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. He is always positive, extremely determined, used to working both in group and alone.