Psychiatrist and PhD in Life Sciences, Dr. Rania has been providing treatment for individuals with eating disorders and conducting research in the field since 2011. Her research has mainly focused on the characterization of general and eating specific psychopathology underlying obesity. She specifically studied psychopathological differences and metabolic correlates in individuals with obesity with and without eating disorders or disordered eating behaviours (e.g., binge eating disorder, food addiction, night eating syndrome), and validated specific screening tools in the field. Her future commitment is to work at the interface between genetic underpinnings, metabolic features, and psychopathology of all eating disorders. Since 2019 she is taking part to the italian effort of the global Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative (EDGI) study, with the overall aim to increase our knowledge about how genes and environmental factors affect the risk of developing eating disorders. She is currently working as a psychiatrist at the Outpatient Unit of Clinical Research and Treatment of Eating Disorders, in the University Hospital “Renato Dulbecco” of Catanzaro, Italy.