Simona Sennato is a Senior Research Scientist at the Italian National Research Council, Institute for Complex Systems (ISC-CNR). She graduated with a master's degree in Physics and received a PhD in Physics from Sapienza University of Rome. Her research activity in focused on soft matter physics, biological physics, and chemical physics, with a focus on soft colloids of lipid or polymeric nature, as well as their self-assembly, interaction and aggregation with charged macromolecules. She is an expert in the physico-chemical characterization of soft colloids for application to drug delivery.