Alessandra Romanelli graduated in Chemistry at the University of Naples “Federico II” (1997). She earned a PhD in Chemistry then a post-doc at the Rockefeller University of New York (Muir Lab). She was appointed assistant professor at the University of Naples (2004). She has been associate professor of General and Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Milan, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences since 2017. Her scientific interests include bioactive peptides and peptide nucleic acids. Recently, she started to work on the self-assembly of peptide/PNA-based molecules.