ANNAMARIA BEVIVINO: Head of AgriFood Sustainability, Quality and Safety Laboratory, Department for Sustainability, ENEA, Rome. Professor of Food Microbiology, Food Science and Technology and Supply Chain Management – Master's Degrees, University Campus Bio-Medico di Roma. Born in Catanzaro on November 19, 1964. Master Degree in Biological Sciences with full marks and honors,University of Rome La Sapienza, 1987. Habilitation degree in Biology, 1988. ENEA Researcher, 1989. Italian National Scientific Habilitation as Full Professor in Microbiology (ASN 2018-2020, Sector 05/I2). Correspondent member of The Georgofily Accademy, Florence, 2021. Member SIMTREA, SIMGBM, Agenzia Regionale per lo Sviluppo e l'Innovazione dell'Agricoltura del Lazio (ARSIAL). Curator and scientific coordinator of ENEA microbial culture collection. Responsible ENEA of the PNRR SUS-MIRRI.IT and ON-FOODS. She is author of more than 63 peer-reviewed publications and 200 communications at national and international conferences (Scopus: ID: 6602516452; h-index:26).
https://bioagro.sostenibilita.enea.it/en/people/annamaria-bevivino

ROBERTO BALDUCCHI (born in Cosenza on November 15 1959) is ENEA Research Director. Degree in Biology in 1985 at the University of Pisa, Habilitation Degree in Biology, 1987, Specialist in Microbiology and Virology at the University "La Sapienza" in 1992, Specialist in Clinical Pathology at the University "La Sapienza" in 1996. In ENEA researcher since 1993. Since 2015 Head of the "Bioproducts and Bioprocesses" Laboratory of the "Biotechnology and Agroindustry" Division of the "Sustainability of Production and Territorial Systems" Department. The main area of interest is the development and promotion of RS&T activities concerning the development and application of KETs, primarily Process Technologies and Mild Technologies, to the food and non-food sectors. It promotes the transfer of knowledge and research results, from the laboratory scale to the pilot scale, to the agro-industrial, agri-food and bio-industrial sectors, in view of the principles of the Regenerative Circular Bioeconomy. He is involved in National, European and international research programs. Participates in the Working Groups of National and Regional Clusters on Bioeconomy. Member of the Board of Directors of the In.Bio Consortium (Innovation and Bioeconomy) participated by ENEA. Member of the TSC of the ITALBIOTEC Consortium. Member of the Technical Table of Medicinal Plants of MASAF. He is author and co-author of more than 100 publications and contributions to Congress.
https://bioagro.sostenibilita.enea.it/people/roberto-balducchi

GIANFRANCO DIRETTO: Research scientist at ENEA, graduated with full marks in 2003 in Plant Biotechnology at the University of Naples “Federico II”. Subsequently, he achieved a PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Aquila in 2007. Since 2008, he has worked as a staff scientist at the ENEA and he has been responsible for the LC/GC-MS Metabolomics facility (2009-present). Since march 2022, he is Head of the Biotechnology Laboratory at ENEA, coordinating a series of metabolomics, plant metabolic engineering and new plant breeding techniques (NPBT) projects. He is particularly interested on investigating pathways and physiological roles of nutritional and anti-nutritional secondary metabolites, and to systems biology and large transcript/metabolite networks in more than 30 different plant agricultural systems. He has co-authored 85 papers (h-index = 30) (https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=14628122300).

ANTONIO MOLINO: Researcher at ENEA in the Biotechnology and Agroindustry Division, graduated in Chemical Engineering, PhD in Chemical and Materials Engineering, and obtained a II level Master's Degree in Management & E-Governance for Public Administration. For 20 years he has been working in the field of Circular Bioeconomy through the development of processes for the valorization of biomass and for the closure of production cycles. He is the author of over 80 publications in indexed international journals (h-index 32 https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=35772957200) and of numerous speeches at national and international conferences. For five years he held the role of national contact within the IEA (International Energy Agency) within the framework of the Bioenergy Agreement. He obtained the National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor in Industrial Chemical Plants and level II qualifications in the sectors of Chemistry, Industrial Chemistry and Chemical Processes.

CLAUDIA ZOANI: Researcher at the ENEA Biotechnology and Agroindustry Division, graduated in Chemistry with a PhD in Analytical Chemistry. Specialist on atomic spectroscopic and mass spectrometry techniques and Metrology, she conducts R&D activities on Reference Materials and Methods; measurement uncertainty; food quality, safety and traceability; sustainability of agrifood systems; chemical risk assessment. She is the Coordinator of the Research Infrastructure METROFOOD-RI – Infrastructure for Promoting Metrology in Food and Nutrition, included in the ESFRI Roadmap for the Domain Health and Food, and of the NRRP project PNRR METROFOOD-IT - Strengthening of the Italian Research Infrastructure for Metrology and Open Access Data in support to the Agrifood, focused on strengthening the Italian national component of the RI.

SILVIA MASSA: Researcher at ENEA - Biotechnology and Agroindustry Division - BIOTEC Laboratory. Graduated in Biology and PhD in Plant Biotechnology.
Research activity: Plant cell cultures as bioreactors for specialized metabolites in cosmetics and as novel food in the Projects: NUTRI3D (P.I.), VEG4FUN (P.I.), InnCoCells (Coll.). Plant bio-factories (plants, cultures of plant cells and organs) for the production of bioactive molecules and proteins of pharmacological value even for life in extreme conditions (Coll. in Projects SOLE, HORTSPACE, BIOxTREME, IDROZAFF). Use of plant transcription factors for biofortification in tomato anthocyanin content. Vaccines and biopharmaceuticals produced through plant and bacterial biofactories (e.g. expression of Human Papillomavirus antigens in collaboration with the 'Regina Elena' National Cancer Institute; M and N proteins from SARS-CoV). Use of plant genes and plant viruses as immunomodulatory sequences in DNA vaccines. Author of three patents and 35 peer-reviewed publications (h index: 15).