Prof. Maria Luisa (Marilù) Chiofalo is a PhD from the Scuola Normale of theoretical condensed-matter physics at the University of Pisa. Her research is conducted in interdisciplinary and international collaborations, regadring quantum states of matter and quantum simulators, quantum metrology, quantum models for visual neurosciences, and physics education. She authors radio and video formats and popular science events, and writes in magazines on science and society. She is active in women's associations and has served for ten years as deputy mayor of the Pisa municipality for education, equal opportunities, city legacy and anticorruption, contributing to national policies planning. She has learned from volleyball to score in three touches (one being her, as setter), from soccer to score with overhead kicks, and from cycling to crash when necessary. She loves making ensemble music by playing tenor sax in the UNIPI Orchestra.