Dr Mariagrazia Di Luca is a Microbiologist. She got her PhD in “Microbiology and Genetics” (University of Pisa) in 2010. Then, she became Specialist in "Microbiology and Virology" in 2015. In 2016 she joined Trampuz´ group at Charité University Medicine Berlin as responsible for the scientific management of the biofilm Research Lab. Since June 2018 Dr Di Luca has been appointed as Assistant Professor at Biology Department of University of Pisa. Her current research interests include medical biofilms, the development of alternative strategies to target sessile bacteria, in vitro studies on the antibacterial activity of new drugs, bacteriophage-bacteria interaction, bacteriophage therapy.