**Matteo Spagnuolo**

Prof. Matteo Spagnuolo is Associate Professor in Agricultural Chemistry at the Department of Soil, Plant and Food Science of the University of Bari. He received a degree (equivalent of M.Sc. degree) in Agricultural Chemistry in 1994 from the University of Bari with 110/110 and honours and earned his PhD in 1998 in Agricultural Chemistry. In the academic year 1998/1999, he spent one year at Cornell University as Post Doc working on a project of soil remediation. An important part of the research activity concerned environmental chemistry. The transformation processes of different organic xenobiotics and pesticides has been studied in the presence of inorganic soil components. He deeply investigated the processes influencing the bioavailability of organic and inorganic pollutants in soil systems with EPR and X-ray spectroscopic speciation studies, resins and earthworms. Most of the studies are being conducted at our settled "micro X-ray LAB" (www.microxraylab.com).
