Armida Torreggiani was born in Bologna (Italy). She got a Degree in Chemistry from the University of Bologna in 1992 and a Ph.D in Biochemistry in 1997 from the same University. She got several post-doctoral fellowships from National Research Council (CNR), University of Bologna and Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (USA). During these years she's improved her knowledge both in Radiation Chemistry (Pulse radiolysis technique) and spectroscopic field (vibrational spectroscopic techniques, such as Raman and IR). From 1994 to 2000 she was External Collaborator of the Istituto di Fotochimica e Radiazioni ad Alta Energia (FRAE- now ISOF) of CNR (Bologna) and for two years she was a teacher of chemistry at the University of Bologna Her current positions is Researcher at ISOF Institute, CNR (Bologna) and her research activity concerns mechanisms of action of compounds with known or potential antioxidant activity, characterisation of metal-ligand complexes, and evaluation of free radical-damages of proteins. Short curriculum vitae et studiorum (PDF).