Alfredo Ambrosone
Associate Professor in Plant Genetics and Genetic Diversity at the Department of Pharmacy, University of Salerno
Alfredo Ambrosone earned his PhD in Biotechnological Sciences from the University of Naples "Federico II" in 2008, focusing on plant tolerance mechanisms under abiotic stress. During the postdoctoral experience at the Cybernetics Institute (CNR) from 2010 to 2014, he explored nanobiotechnology, particularly the response to nanoparticle-induced stress and innovative strategies for gene silencing and signaling pathway control. Prof. Ambrosone won a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship under the HORIZON 2020- Excellent Science program at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, in 2015. Additionally, he has held visiting research positions at several prestigious institutions abroad, such as the University of Innsbruck, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Phillips University of Marburg, and the Instituto de Nanociencia de Aragon. His research now focuses on the genetic and molecular mechanisms affecting plant growth and secondary metabolite synthesis under environmental stresses. In recent years, he has investigated the potential of plant extracellular vesicles for both plant protection and human health. He is a founding member of the Italian Society for Extracellular Vesicles (EVITA). He currently leads several national and international research projects, including as coordinator of a National Research Project (PRIN 2022) on plant extracellular vesicles and their role in plantmicrobiome interactions, and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship project (2023) on nanocarriers for RNA interference in plants. Prof. Ambrosone has authored more 40 papers in leading journals in plant sciences and nanobiotechnology, and his scientific achievements include more than 50 contributions to national and international conference proceedings as poster and invited oral presentations. He served on the Board of Directors of the Italian Society of Agricultural Genetics from 2021 to 2023.
