**About the Editors**

**Silvia Bonetta** graduated in Biological Science in 1999 at the University of Piemonte Orientale "A. Avogadro". In 2006, she obtained her Ph.D. in "Environmental Science" at the University of Piemonte Orientale "A. Avogadro". From 2000 to 2017, she undertook Post-Doc activity at the Environmental Hygiene Laboratory of the Department of Environmental and Life Sciences at the University of Piemonte Orientale "A. Avogadro" and the Department of Public Health and Pediatrics, University of Torino. In 2018, she was a Researcher (Junior Fixed-Term Researcher—RTDA) at the Department of Public Health and Pediatrics, University of Torino. Since 2020, she has been a Researcher (Senior Fixed-Term Researcher- RTDB) at the Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Torino and lecturer in the courses of "Hygiene and preventive medicine", "Epidemiology", "Laboratory of Environmental Health and Toxicology" and "General Microbiology and Food&Health Safety". She is also a member of the Istituto Superiore di Sanita Commission ` for "Biological and microbiological methods". Her research is focused on the development and application of methods for pathogen detection in the environment and food to highlight emerging public health issues in the environment (ex. emerging pathogen detection, evaluation of antibiotic resistance, evaluation of antibacterial activity using emerging compounds or techniques). She is the author/co-author of 41 scientific publications in international journals, a member of the editorial board of *Pathogens*, and the Guest Editor of some Special Issues from MDPI concerning the topic "Environmental Hygiene".

**Sara Bonetta** graduated in Biological Sciences in 1999 at the University of Piemonte Orientale "A. Avogadro". In 2005, she obtained her Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from the University of Piemonte Orientale "A. Avogadro". From 2000 to 2012, she undertook a Post-Doc at the Environmental Hygiene Laboratory of the Department of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Piemonte Orientale. From 2012 to 2019, she was a Researcher (Junior Fixed-Term Researcher- RTDA and Senior Fixed-Term Researcher- RTDB) at the Department of Public Health and Pediatrics, University of Torino and lecturer in the courses of "Microbiology and Hygiene", "Laboratory of environmental health and general toxicology", "Occupational health and risk communication" and "Epidemiology". Since 2019, she has been an Associate Professor at the University of Torino. Her area of research focuses on the evaluation of methods for the detection of Legionella in water, study of disinfection methods against waterborne pathogens, and evaluation of microbiological air quality. Her other topics of interest include evaluation of antibiotic resistance in the environment and in vitro and in vivo genotoxicity of particulate matter and environmental pollutants in occupational and life environment. She is the author/co-author of 39 scientific publications in international journals and a member of the editorial board of *Pathogens*.
