**About the Editor**

#### **Giuseppina Martella**

Giuseppina Martella currently works as an associate professor of Physiology at the Pegaso Telematic University, Department of Human Sciences. She also continues her work at the Laboratory of Physiology and Plasticity, Fondazione Santa Lucia, IRCCS, Rome. She received her Master's Degree in Biology with a focus on Pathophysiology from the University of Rome Tor Vergata. She continued her training in the Neurophysiology laboratories of Professor Giorgio Bernardi.

She has been interested in neurological pathologies since 2000. She then obtained her specialization in Clinical Pathology in 2007, continuing to work on movement disorders under the guidance of Professors Stefani, Calabresi, and Pisani. In 2012, she received her doctorate in Neuroscience. She has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and research grants.

Since 2014, she has been devoted to the study of Synaptic Plasticity phenomena and has focused her attention on Parkinson's Disease and Genetic Dystonias.

She is the author of more than 70 papers in international journals and is the recipient of several Research Awards and Grants.

Her major goal is the knowledge of physiological mechanisms and their alterations in Neurological disorders; to achieve this goal, she is currently collaborating with other researchers on translational projects that start from the molecular and continue in the patient.
