Elena Moretti is an Associate Professor in Applied Biology at the Department of Molecular and Developmental Medicine, University of Siena (Italy). She received her Degree in Biological Science and her PhD in Biology of Germinal Cells at the University of Siena. In 1996, she spent a year conducting research at the “Department of Genetic and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry”, Yale University (New Haven, CT, USA). Elena Moretti is a member of the Board of Doctoral School in Molecular Medicine (University of Siena, Siena Italy) and member of the teaching Committee of the Master Degree in “Biotechnologies of Human Reproduction”, Department of Molecular and Developmental Medicine, University of Siena. Her research interests are focused on the field of reproduction. In particular, she is interested in morphological and molecular studies of human and animal spermatogenesis in normal and pathological conditions and in the study of oxidative stress in seminal plasma and spermatozoa. She has authored more than 160 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and has an h-index = 35 (Scopus).