Manuela Mandrone

Associate Professor at the University of Bologna, Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology (FaBiT).
A passionate scholar of the plant kingdom, her research focuses on medicinal and aromatic plants using an integrated metabolomic approach, primarily based on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and chemometric tools. A systemic perspective on plants and their metabolites is the guiding thread of her work, which ranges from the study of traditional medicines and ethnobotany as sources of bioactive compounds, to quality control of natural products, and the exploration of plant–environment interactions.

She is a member of the Italian Society of Phytochemistry (SIF), author of numerous scientific publications in the field of Plant Science, she has participated in several national and international research projects.