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## **About the Editors**

#### **Alessia Vignoli**

Alessia Vignoli (Researcher), born in 1988 in Florence, earned her M.Sc. in Chemical Sciences in 2014 at the University of Florence. In 2017, she obtained her Ph.D. in Structural Biology, which is an international doctorate awarded by the University of Florence in collaboration with the Universities of Frankfurt and Utrecht, defending her thesis entitled "Applications of metabolomics in biomedicine". In 2018, she was the recipient of a two-year fellowship of the Italian Association for Cancer Research (AIRC) with a project focused on the applications of NMR-based metabolomics for the prognosis of colon cancer patients. From 2021, she has been a postdoctoral research associate at Department of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff", University of Florence, working on the risk stratification of atrial fibrillation patients using NMR-based metabolomics. Alessia Vignoli is author of 31 scientific articles, all related to metabolomics, and all published in international peer-reviewed journals.

#### **Gaia Meoni**

Gaia Meoni (Researcher) was born in 1991 in Florence. She obtained the M.Sc. in Molecular Biology and Genetics at the University of Pavia in 2015. In 2018, she earned the International Doctorate in Structural Biology from the University of Florence, in conjunction with the Universities of Frankfurt and Utrecht, defending a thesis titled "Metabolomics by NMR: applications and challenges from biomedicine to food research". After the Ph.D., she continued doing research in the field of metabolomics during her post-doctorate fellowships at CIRMMP (Interuniversity Consortium for Magnetic Resonance of Metallo Proteins) in 2019 and GiottoBiotech s.r.l from 2019 to 2021. Currently, she is junior researcher at the Department of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff" of the University of Florence. Her research activity focuses on NMR based metabolomics applications, which range from human health to food matrices. She is co-author of 23 peer-reviewed research articles in the field of metabolomics.

#### **Leonardo Tenori**

Leonardo Tenori (Assistant Professor), born in 1977, obtained his master's degree in chemistry in 2002 at the University of Florence, and the International Ph.D. in Structural Biology in 2008 at the University of Florence. He has been Researcher at CIRMMP (University of Florence, Italy), and he joined the faculty at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Florence as tenure-track researcher in September 2020. After the Ph.D., his primary interest turned to the applications of metabolomics via magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) for the study of complex biological mixtures, both in the biomedicine field (analysis of human biofluids), and in the agri-food area. He performs his research in the framework of the CERM/CIRMMP infrastructure, one of the largest and best equipped NMR facilities in world. In 2015 he was awarded with a Fellowship of the Italian Foundation "Veronesi" for the study of the metabolomic alterations in melanoma patients. He has collaboration with researchers and clinicians at local, national and international level. He is co-author of 117 scientifical articles related to metabolomics in peer-review journals.
