Riccardo Nodari obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Biological
Sciences and a Master’s degree in the Molecular Biology of the Cell from the
University of Milan in 2016 and 2018, respectively. He studied as a Visiting
PhD Student at the IHU Mediterranean Infection, Aix-Marseille University from
October 2019 to December 2020. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Milan
in 2021 and then studied as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Bioinformatic and
Historical Epidemiology from February 2022 to July 2023. He is currently a
researcher in Virology and Bioinformatics, at Istituto Nazionale di Genetica
Molecolare (INGM), University of Milan.
Milena Arghittu has been the director of Complex Analysis
Laboratory Structure, ASST Melegnano, and Martesana since January 2020. She
served as a Biologist Manager at the I.R.C.C.S.Ca’ Granda Foundation Ospedale
Maggiore Policlinico di Milano from February 2012 to December 2019. Her
research interests include general pathology, microbiology, and
immunohematology.
Dr. Cristina Cattaneo is a forensic pathologist and
anthropologist, currently a Full Professor of Legal Medicine at the Faculty
of Medicine of the Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy) and Director of
LABANOF, Laboratorio di Antropologia e Odontologia Forense. She has been
actively involved with the Italian Ministry of Internal Affairs in the creation
of a national database for unidentified human remains and since 2014 has been
the medico-legal coordinator for the Governmental Office of the Commissioner
for Missing Persons for the identification of dead migrants. She also
coordinates the medico-legal activities of victims of maltreatment and torture
and unaccompanied minors in Milan. She is a forensic pathology and
anthropology expert for various courts in Italy and occasionally in Europe,
President of FASE (Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe), a member of the
Swiss DVI (Disaster Victim Identification) team, and Co-Editor in Chief for the
Journal of Forensic Science International.
Roberta Creti works as a senior researcher in the Department of Infectious Diseases at Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy. She is a molecular microbiologist and coordinates the national surveillance on human infections by beta-haemolytic streptococci. In particular, her interest is on the molecular epidemiology and the molecular basis of virulence and antibiotic resistance of group A and group B Streptococci.
Francesco D’Aleo is Microbiologist at
U.O.C. Microbiologia e Virologia, GOM Great Metropolitan Hospital of Reggio
Calabri. He received a degree in Biology, specializing in Applied Microbiology
and Biotechnology from the University of Messina, and completed a specialization
Course in Aerobiology at the University of Perugia. He studied a specialization
Course in Diagnostic Cytopathology at the University of Naples Federico II and
completed 2nd level University Master’s Course—CMU2 in Hospital Infection
Control at the University of Messina. He completed a specialization in
Microbiology and Virology at the University of Catania in 2017 and then a 2nd
level University Master’s Course-CMU2 of Healthcare Management at the Unitelma
Sapienza in 2022. He served as a specialist in Microbiology and Virology at the
University of Catania from October 2013 to October 2017. He has been a teacher
at the University of Messina since June 2021. He is secretary of the GLAMIFO—AMCLI
Working Group for Forensic Microbiology. His research interests include
Clinical Microbiology and Post-Mortem Microbiology.
Veroniek Saegeman is a Clinical Biologist at the Vitaz
Hospital. She graduated as a clinical microbiologist and infection control
practitioner in 2011 at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. She
performed her PhD in the field of tissue banking, studying the contamination
and decontamination methods used for allogeneic tissue allografts. Currently,
she holds a position as a microbiologist and infection control practitioner in
Vitaz, a large regional hospital in Sint-Niklaas, and as a consultant infection
control practitioner at University Hospitals Leuven. Since 2014, she has been
active in the ESCMID Study Group for Forensic and Post-Mortem Microbiology
(ESGFOR).
Dr. Lorenzo Franceschetti is a forensic
pathologist and currently works at the LABANOF, Department of Biomedical
Sciences for Health, University of Milan. He is an assistant professor in the
Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health at the University of Milan. He is
engaged in the issues of personal identification, forensic anthropology, and
humanitarian medicine.
Stefano Novati is the Medical Director
at the University of Pavia with a specialty in Infectious Diseases. In 1997, he
benefited from IRCCS research fellowships with the Institute of the Clinic of
Infectious Diseases of Pavia. He then joined the Parasitology Laboratory and
since 1999, has been working in the outpatient department of the Infectious
Diseases Clinic of the same polyclinic, mainly dealing with the care of
patients suffering from HIV and HCV infections. He is currently managing the
Infectious Diseases Clinic that caters to patients with highly complex
diagnostic/therapeutic pathways: HIV seropositive subjects and HSV-positive
co-infected.
Dr. Claudio Farina is the Director of the Microbiology
and Virology Laboratory at ASST ‘Papa Giovanni XXIII’ in Bergamo, Italy. He
previously served as the Director at Azienda Ospedaliera San Carlo Borromeo, Milano,
Italy. His research interests include Antibiotics; Infection; Pathogens; Bacteriology;
and Medical Mycology.
