Gianfilippo Alessio Clemente is a researcher at the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia Romagna (IZSLER). He is a thirty-two years old Sicilian veterinarian, living and working in Brescia (Lombardy). In 2009, he started his undergraduate studies in veterinary medicine at the university of Bologna, with two student exchange programme periods, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) and in Madrid (UCM). During his undergraduate studies, he became passionate about infectious disease, and in 2015 he graduated with a thesis on the epidemiology and prophylaxis of blue tongue virus. Soon after graduating, he started to work as a veterinarian surgeon in different pet clinics around Italy (Marsala, Pantelleria and Milano). In 2018, he decided to move to Barcelona for a master programme in “Zoonoses and One health” at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). He concluded his master studies with an experimental thesis about the persistence of Influenza A virus under different environmental conditions at the Animal Health Research Centre (CReSA). This master gave him the opportunity to broaden his knowledge about veterinary medicine and its involvement in a global vision of health. He learned the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in the various health fields in order to improve animal, human and environmental health. He gained skills in terms of prevention, control, management and communication of biological hazards and threats. From 2019, he has been working at the IZSLER with tree different research grants at the Italian national centre reference of animal welfare (CReNBA) and at the laboratory of autovaccines. The main topics of his work are focussed on animal welfare and the need to reduce the antibiotics use in farms, developing alternative treatments, as vaccines and use of platelet concentrate. From 2020, he has been attending the specialization school of “Breeding, hygiene, pathology of aquatic species and control of derivate products”.