Emanuela Gatto received in 2003 an MSc degree in chemistry (summa cum laude) at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and in 2007 a PhD in chemistry from the same university. In 2007, she had a Marie Curie fellowship at the Division of Applied Physics of the University of Linköping (Sweden). Since 2009, she is a researcher of physical chemistry at the Department of Chemical Science and Technologies of the University of Rome Tor Vergata. In 2011, she was visiting researcher at the University of Coimbra. In 2014, she received the National Scientific Qualification as associate professor. The research activity of Emanuela Gatto is focused on the study of natural polymers as sustainable and biocompatible materials. She held invited talks at national and international conferences and university seminars. Emanuela Gatto took part in several national and international projects, in some of them as principal investigator. She won the Semerano prize for the best PhD thesis in the physical chemistry field and has recently received many prizes in the innovation field, concerning the realization of bioplastic materials from organic waste.