Ilaria Silvestro is enrolled in the PhD program in Chemical Sciences at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" where she obtained a Bachelor's degree in industrial chemistry in 2015 and a Master's degree (110/110 cum laude) in Industrial Chemistry (Curriculum: Polymeric Materials) in 2018. Her bachelor's degree focused on the preparation and characterization of matrices based on chitosan and hyaluronic acid while in her Master's Thesis she dealt with the synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles as supports of enzymatic immobilization. Currently, her research is focused on the development of polymer-based materials for biomedical and industrial applications.