Armida Sodo is Associate Professor at Dipartimento di Scienze, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, in the sector FIS/07 (Applied Physics). After obtaining a degree in chemistry (1998), she achieved her PhD in chemical physics (2003), both at the University “Sapienza” in Rome. In her doctoral thesis, she developed a Raman system devoted to Cultural Heritage applications. Then, she earned a Post-doc position at ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility), Grenoble, France. Her present research studies concern applications of Raman spectroscopy to several fields (Cultural Heritage, Medicine, Mineralogy), the development of Raman instrumentation devoted to different applications, and the synthesis and characterization of nanodevices. She has published more than 100 papers in national and international journals (H-index = 23), books, and conference proceedings, and she has presented her works at several national and international conferences. She organizes university courses and master's lessons.