Prof. Bonaccorsi is Associate Professor of Food Chemistry at the CHIBIOFARAM Department of the University of Messina since 2018. Obtained the ASN for Full Professor of Food Chemistry on 04/10/2022. Has been University Researcher of Food Chemistry since 1998 at the University of Messina. She graduated cum Laude in Chemistry at the University of Messina in 1995. In 1996 she attended the Ingredients Control Department as a fellow the Research and Development Department of The Coca-Cola Company ATLANTA GA USA, for a period of six months. Later she attended the Chemistry Department, Virginia Polytechnique Institute, Blacksburg VA, USA with a postgraduate scholarship abroad, under the guidance of Prof. Harold M. McNair. She currently teaches the following courses: Food Chemistry, Chemistry of Dietetic Products and Functional Foods and Chemistry of Citrus Derivatives for various CdS of the University of Messina. She is professor of the Doctorate in Chemical Sciences of the University of Messina. Her research activity includes the study of natural matrices using advanced chromatographic and spectroscopic methods with particular relevance to citrus derivatives. She is the author of 69 publications, and has participated in numerous national and international conferences and in numerous research projects of national interest.