Roberta Raffaetà is Research Fellow at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Marie Curie e Fulbright Fellow, she has worked at various universities abroad (UCLA, Monash Melbourne, Lausanne) and in Italy. Her new book ‘Antropologia dei microbi. Come la metagenomica sta riconfigurando l’umano e la salute’ (CISU, Roma) has just been published.