Marina Russo

Marina Russo is an associate professor of food chemistry at the University of Messina (Italy) since 2020. She received a Ph.D. in food chemistry and safety from the University of Messina in 2011. She was assistant professor of Food Chemistry at the University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome from 2016 to 2020. Russo is the author of more than 80 scientific papers, and she has been speaker in national and international congresses and symposiums. Her research interests include the study of the composition of Citrus products (essential oils and juices) by chromatographic techniques; the study of components with possible biological activity in natural matrices (polyphenols, anthocyanins, coumarins); the study of phospholipids in food fats. She is the inventor of a patent for a dietary supplement issued by the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy. She is principal investigator of a Project of Significant National Interest focused on valorization of pruning waste residue. Russo has been a member of the organizing committees of national and international meetings.