**Meet the editor**

Pier Andrea Serra is Associate Professor of Pharmacology at Medical School at the University of Sassari. He received his degree as Medical Doctor at Sassari University and studied the Neurochemistry of Parkinson's Disease using microdialysis and voltammetry. Prof. Serra received his PhD in Pharmacology and obtained a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University College of

Dublin and at National University of Maynooth (Ireland). During last year, Professor Serra worked as Visiting Professor in the Laboratory of Sleep and Consciousness directed by Prof. Giulio Tononi and Prof. Chiara Cirelli at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (USA). Professor Serra's research program focuses on design and application of microsensors, biosensors, EEG, EMG and neurotelemetry for electrochemical monitoring of brain signalling systems during sleep and in neurodegenerative diseases.
