Paola Nitti is a Researcher in Industrial Bioengineering at the University of Salento, Lecce, Italy. She earned her Ph.D. in Materials and Structure Engineering and Nanotechnology from the University of Salento in 2018. She worked in the R&D area of Italian companies focusing on the synthesis and characterization of smart materials for Tissue Engineering and biomedical devices (swab). She is currently working at the University of Salento, where she is focused on research and characterization of biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative medicine. Her expertise is mainly in the synthesis of scaffolds produced by electrospinning or freeze-drying, as well as their chemical-physical, mechanical and biological characterization.