Giovanni Dal Corso graduated in Biotechnology at the University of Verona. After graduation, he started his research activity studying cyclic electron transport in photosystem I at the Max Planck Institut für Züchtungsforschung (Germany). In 2007, he received his PhD in Natural Sciences from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (Germany). Currently, he is a researcher at the Biotechnology Department at the University of Verona. Dr Dal Corso's research activity is oriented towards plant-environment interaction and gene characterization, with a special focus on the study of genetic and molecular mechanisms involved in the processes of uptake, accumulation and detoxification of heavy metals in plant species.