Edoardo Marco Napoli

Edoardo Napoli, Ph.D. is a Staff Research Scientist of Italian National Research Council (C.N.R. – Italy). Prior to joining the ‘Natural substances and food chemistry’ team at the Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry (ICB-CNR), Dr. Napoli graduated summa cum laude in chemistry from the University of Catania (Italy). He continued his studies in Chemistry of natural compounds, earning his PhD at the same university in 2003. After several years in a multinational pharmaceutical company as Regulatory Affairs Manager, became a permanent research staff at ICB-CNR in 2008. He is also a biotechnologist, with a Bachelor’s degree achieved in 2014. His research activities are focused on natural products’ chemistry, phytochemistry, cosmetics, natural ingredients, flavors and fragrances and exploitation of agroindustrial wastes. At the moment, the pharmacological and biological activities of natural compounds and phytocomplexes from different origin has become the main topic of his research. He authored more than 60 publications in peer-reviewed journals, several scientific dissemination articles, and book chapters.