Elisa Pellegrino graduated in Agricultural Sciences and obtained a PhD in Crop Sciences from the University of Pisa. She is assistant professor in Agronomy and Field Crops at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa of Italy. She participated to 38 international and national research projects, playing an active role also as principal investigator. She has many scientific collaborations and was visiting researcher at the Universidad Tecnica del Norte-Ecuador, the Volcani Center-Israel, the University of York-UK, and the West Virginia University-USA. She is a member of scientific societies: European Society of Agronomy, Italian Society of Agronomy, British Ecological Society and International Mycorrhizal Society. Project evaluator for BES and EU and reviewer for scientific journals. Author of about 130 publications, including 45 articles in indexed journals; she has an HI of 21 and 1806 citations. Research interests: management of soil-crop interactions and soil microbiome networks to promote sustainability and food security in agricultural systems across different climatic areas. Microbial inoculant development and field inoculation of AMF to various crops, n order to increase micronutrients and bioactive substances in crop yield and transformed products. New research lines: local vs exotic microbial consortia to promote crop tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses.