Prof. Dr. Rosario Nicoletti is a Senior Researcher at the Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Center for Olive, Fruit and Citrus Crops in Caserta, Italy, and at the Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Portici, Italy. His skills and expertise include environmental science, plant pathology, crop protection, pest management, endophytes, entomopathogens, marine fungi, microbiology, antimicrobials and bioactive natural products. He has 91 publications with 1547 citations and an h-index of 22 (Scopus, 18 December 2023). He is an Editorial Board member in the journals Agriculture, Frontiers in Microbiology, Folia Horticulturae and Acta Agrobotanica.