Alessandra Marengoni is a medical doctor, specialized in Internal Medicine at the University of Brescia (Italy) and PhD in Geriatric Epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet. Alessandra Marengoni is currently employed as Associate Professor at the University of Brescia, Italy. She is the Director of the Geriatric Unit of one of the main hospitals in Northern Italy and of the residency school in Geriatrics. She is currently associated to the Ageing Research Center – Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, and she is involved in the research group studying multimorbidity in the older population. Alessandra Marengoni is interested in the following research lines: - Clusters of diseases and patterns of multimorbidity; - Cardiovascular diseases and dementia; - Biomarkers of aging and frailty. She coauthored 245 publications, her H-index is 50 according to Scopus.