Full professor of food and wine microbiology at the University of Torino, Italy. Executive board member of the ICFMH, part of the IUMS, and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Food Microbiology. Member of the Editorial Board of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Frontiers in Microbiology, Current Opinion in Food Science and Food Analytical Methods. He is co-author of about 250 papers on national and international journals. Expert in (i) Molecular methods for the detection, quantification and characterization of foodborne pathogens; (ii) Study of the microbial ecology of foods by using culture independent and dependent methods; (iii) Bioprotection: (iv) Human microbiome.