Alex Lucchi is an Italian national, holds a BCs Degree in Food Science and Technology from University of Bologna, Italy, and has advanced the state-of-the-art of diverse areas of food safety, such pulsed field gel electrophoresis, food metagenomics, BioNumerics and food safety criteria. Dr. Lucchi has supervised $>10$ graduate students; has published $>20$ peer-reviewed articles; has been awarded $4$ grants from European calls. He holds an H-index of $7$, has published with $51$ co-authors and his work has been cited ~$145$ times.