Dr. Marcello Iriti is a full Professor of Pharmaceutical Biology at the Milan State University. He has been studying food security and sustainable food systems, as well as the effects of environmental pollutants, biotic/abiotic stresses and climate changes on plant health. Furthermore, he has been studying bioactive phytochemicals relevant to human nutrition and health, focusing on their functional role in planta, as well as their biological activities in vitro/in vivo and in human. He has been investigating the effects of elicitors on plant secondary metabolism, as an approach to obtain phytochemical-enriched plant foods and medicinal herbs.

Professor Iriti is an author of more than 300 publications with IF (Scopus h-index: 58).

He has ranked of the top 2% Scientists in the 2021 and 2022 list of outstanding researchers by Elsevier and Stanford University, USA.(https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/4).

World's Best Biology and Biochemistry Scientist (https://research.com/u/marcello-iriti)

Top Author University of Milan (https://www.scival.com/overview/authors/topAuthorsByScholarlyOutput?uri=Institution/321055)

Name of Journals

Frontiers in Nutrition (IF 5.0); Associate Editor

Cellular and Molecular Biology (IF 1.6); Associate Editor

PLOS ONE (IF 3.7); Editorial Board Member

Food Chemistry: Molecular Sciences (IF 3.3); Editorial Board Member

Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark (IF 3.1); Editorial Board Member

Other Scientific Engagements (society/member of the committee)

Member of the World Academy of Sciences (http://www.worldacademyofsciences.com/members.html)

Member of the Asian Council of Science Editors

Founding Member and Member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Society of Environmental Medicine

Member of the Working Group ‘Pharmacognosy, Phytotherapy and Nutraceuticals’, Italian Pharmacological Society

Member of the Board of the PhD School in Sciences for Food Systems, Milan State University.