Federica Mastrolonardo
Free University of Bolzano Italy
Federica Mastrolonardo is a third-year PhD student in Food Engineering and Biotechnology at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. Her research focuses on the digestibility of fermented food and formulation, specifically investigating the chemical and nutritional factors affecting digestibility and their impact on the human gut microbiome and metabolome. To replicate the functionality of the large intestine, she utilizes the Simulator of the Human Intestinal Microbial Ecosystem (SHIME®)
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