Alessandra De Cesare is an Italian national, holds a PhD in Food Science from University of Bologna, Italy, and has advanced the state-of-the-art of diverse areas of food safety, such microbial risk assessment, food metagenomics, predictive microbiology and food safety criteria. Dr. De Cesare has supervised $>15$ graduate, postgrad and PhD students; has published $>60$ peer-reviewed articles and $3$ book chapters; has hosted $2$ international researchers; has presented at $19$ international conferences, and has been awarded 13 grants from European calls. She holds an H-index of $14$, has published with $150$ co-authors and her work has been cited ~$621$ times. She is part of the panel of experts on biological hazards at the European Food Safety Authority and serve as Vice editor in Chief of the Italian Journal of Food Safety.