Danilo Milardi, was born in Catania on July 22, 1968, and graduated in Industrial Chemistry at the University of Catania on July 16, 1992 with vote 110/110 and with honours. He obtained a PhD in Physical Chemistry on October 30, 1996. In 1997 he obtained a fellowship granted by the University of Catania. In 1999 he obtained a post-doc position at the University of Catania. Since December 2001 he is research scientist at the Italian Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) Instituto di Biostrutture e Bioimmagini. During the academic years 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 he was lecturer of Physical-Chemistry and General-Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Catania. He is member of the advisory committee of the Institute of Biostrucyure and Bioimaging. He is the scientific responsible of many projects either from CNR (RSTL 620) or Ministery of University (public-private Lab CNR-Wyeth Lederle n DM20919, PRIN 2015. He co-edited with E. Rizzarelli the book entitled Neurodegeneration: Metallostasis and Proteostasis, 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry UK. He is editor of the Special  Issue - Molecular Dynamics: New Advances in Drug Discovery", European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Elsevier, 2014. Dr. Milardi is using various experimental and theoretical methods to study protein stability, and to characterize how environmental factors (e. g. lipid membranes and metal ions) may promote protein misfolding/aggregation. More recently, he has focused on the role played by environmental factors in causing the derangement of the Ubiquitin Proteasome System. He is author of more than 70 papers published on peer-reviewed journals.