Pasquale Orgiani completed his bachelor degree in Physics at the University of Naples in 1999; then, he achieved a PhD in Microsystems Engineering at the University of Roma Tor Vergata. He worked at Pennsylvania State University (in the research group of Prof. Xiaoxing Xi) on the newly discovered superconductor magnesium diboride MgB2, grown in the form of thin films by an innovative hybrid physical–chemical vapor deposition (HPCVD) technique. He is presently a staff scientist at CNR in the field of deposition and characterization of functional materials in firm of thin films. His research activity is focused on the role of structural properties (mainly strain induced on the thin films by different substrates during the epitaxial growth) on their electronic properties (e.g., metal-insulator transition, quantum interference effects at low temperatures, surface states).