Barbara Menin has 13 years experience as post-doc in molecular biology, genetics and biochemistry. She obtained a master’s degree in Plant Biotechnology (2007) and, subsequently, a PhD (2011) in Plant Genetics at the University of Turin. During her PhD she spent six months of Erasmus fellowship at the University of Wageningen (NL) and, as a post doc scientist, she spent one year at the University of Nancy (FR).Her research activities were focused on the in vitro and in vivo functional characterization of genes involved in secondary metabolites pathways and the assessment of genetic transformation protocols aimed at use of microorganisms and plants as platforms for the production of recombinant proteins of nutraceutical interest. She also carried out the chemical, metagenomic and transcriptomic characterization of microalgae for nutrient recovery from waste and the assessment of the evolution of microalgae/bacteria consortia during wastewater treatment.In 2017 she won a post doc fellow at the Biophysics Institute of Italy's National Research Council (IBF-CNR) of Milan to work on metabolic engineering of cyanobacterial strains for astaxanthin production.In 2019 she joined as researcher the Center for Sustainable Future Technologies (CSFT@PoliTo Torino) of Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) located in Turin, to supervise and coordinate the Systems and Synthetic Biology research line.Since 2022 she hold a permanent position as Researcher at the Institut of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology of the CNR (IBBA-CNR) in Milan and carries on her collaboration with the CSFT-IIT as Affiliated Researcher. She is currently referent for IBBA and DiSBA-CNR under the PNRR founding projects of Spoke 2-ONFOODS (PE10) for the agrifood waste valorisation by means of algae-based technology. She is PI for CNR of the BIOCOIM Project -BIOCOnversion of agro-industrial foos and wastes by Insects and Microalgae (Task 2.1.2).She is PI of the Project DYE-ART - In vivo incorporation of organic DYE to ARTificially enhance photosynthetic efficiency in green algae and cyanobacteria, PRIN2022PNRR (LS9-P2022TCS3K) funded by PNRR- European Union-Next Generation EU.Main current research topics:- Development of photo-autotrophic microbial cell factories for CO2 capture and valorization - Agri-food waste valorization through biotechnological processes based on microalgae- Investigation of biochemical aspects related to H2 storage