Current Position: Full Professor of Food Chemistry at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Salerno, Italy
Address: Dipartimento di Farmacia, University of Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II 84084 Fisciano (SA) - Italy.
Phone: +39-089-969766 - Fax: +39-089-969602 - e-mail:
[email protected]
Appointments and Professional Experience:
1991-1994 PhD in Natural Products at the Faculty of Pharmacy of University of Naples
1996 Specialization in "Science and Technique of Medicinal Plants” at the Faculty of Pharmacy of University of Naples
1996-1998 Postdoctoral position at the Faculty of Pharmacy of University of Salerno
2002-2005 Member of Board of Directors of University of Salerno
Since 2007 Nominated Expert in the Italian Ministry of Health (D.M. 26 April 2007)
2004 Honorary Professor University of SUR, Lima Perù,
2009 Honorary Professor University of Havana Cuba,
2009 Permanent General Secreatary at SILAE (www.silae.it)
He is Director of the Master's Degree in Hydrology and Thermal and Sports Medicine (IDROMET) and the Postgraduate Course in Ketogenic Diets and Nutritional Therapies: Supplements and Nutraceuticals (NUTRIKETO). Both activated at the University of Salerno.
Since 2017 he is Scientific Director of the NutriKeto _Lab University Clinical Research Laboratory at the Moscati di Avellino Hospital
Main topics of research are:
- Chemical, nutritional and biological characterization of food plant species: the investigation involves the analysis of primary metabolites to evaluate nutritional value, isolation and identification of secondary metabolites, considered chemical markers, useful to quality control and development of integrated analytical techniques for determination of qualitative and quantitative profile of plants dried extracts used in food integration.
- Study of biological properties of food plants and/or their components to identify the components responsible of nutritional, functional, therapeutic and/or toxic effects and evaluation of their biological and pharmacological activity.
- Quality control and safe of foodstuff matrices, food supplements, dietetic products and water: the activity involves the development of instrumental analytical techniques applied both to water and foodstuff matrices and to characterization of Mediterranean typical productions by using of different chromatographic techniques as GC, GC-MS, HPLC-DAD, HPLC-MS. The quality control regard the investigation on environmental contaminants in mineral water, surface water, thermal water, air, foodstuff, animal feeding, etc. and the analytes principally considered are PCBs, mycotoxins, phytopharmaceutic derivatives.
Prof. Rastrelli’s group is currently cooperating with recognized Italian and Foreign partners.
Prof. Rastrelli is invited as speaker at National and International Symposia
He is member of scientific committee of several international symposia and schools
He is author or co-author of about 280 publications in International Journals and chapter in books.
Associate Editor of Frontiers in Pharmacology (Ethnopharmacology)
Associate Editor of the "Emirates Journal of Food and Agriculture [EJFA]
Associate Editor of Natural Product Communications
Associate Editor of Molecules Section 'Natural Products Chemistry'
Associate Editor BLACPMA - Boletín LatinoAmericano y del Caribe de Plantas Medicinales y Aromáticas ISSN: 0717-7917
Editorial Board Botanics: Targets and Therapy Journal ISSN: 1179-9897
International Patents: Pub. No.: US 2016/0264523 A1; US20170274007A1 United States
