Antonio Ferrante has been an associate professor at the University of Milan, Italy, since 2016. He graduated in Agricultural Sciences from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, with 110/110 cum laude (honors) in 1997. He obtained a PhD degree in advanced technology in horticultural sciences from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, in 2001, with 100/100 cum laude. In 2000, he spent one year as a visiting researcher at the Department of Environmental Horticulture, University of California, Davis, CA, USA, in the laboratory of Prof. M. S. Reid. From 2004 to 2016 he has been a researcher/assistant professor at the University of Milan. His research topics are related to crop quality, postharvest, mineral nutrition and abiotic stress in crop production. His research topics focus on physiological and biochemical changes in crops and on the evaluation of crop quality when subjected to different stress conditions. He has been scientific head of the research unit in a European-funded project related to fresh produce quality monitoring using molecular tools. He is associate editor of Frontiers in Plant Science: Crop and Produce Quality. He is author or co-author of more than 200 international publications in peer-reviewed journals, 156 indexed in Scopus with index h 26.