Giuseppe Spano

Prof. Giuseppe Spano is a full professor in industrial microbiology, food microbiology and recombinant DNA technology at the University of Foggia. He holds a PhD in Plant Biotechnology from University of Bristol and a PhD in Food Microbiology from University of Foggia. He has held visiting researcher positions at renowned international institutions: University of Bordeaux, Catholic University of Louvain, ENSBANA-DIJON and University of Turku. He supervised many PhD students and was member of numerous international steering PhD committees, also acted as an evaluator of research projects for several national and international agencies. Prof. Spano has been coordinator of over 40 scientific projects and has been an author on more than 400 scientific papers including book chapters and patents, which have been cited over 11.000  and his h-index is 61. He has been a member of the Italian Society of Environmental and Food Microbiology and acts as Editor in chief of Food Bioscience. Prof. Spano is co-founder and scientific consultant of a spin-off company Promis Biotech srl. His research is oriented towards biotechnologically significant innovations based on lactic acid bacteria focusing on vitamins production and antifungal and antibacterial activities.