Cesaria Maura graduated in Physics cum laude in 2008 and received a Ph.D. degree in Physics in 2012 at the University of Salento (Lecce, Italy). Then, she worked actively in the fields of material science and nano-photonics at the Physics Department of the University of Salento and IMM-CNR Institute (Lecce, Italy). She has had a visiting scholar position at the physics Department of Boston College (MA, USA) since 2013. In addition, since 2013 she has contributed to the organization of the Spectroscopy International School held at the Majorana Foundation (Erice, Italy) and directed by Prof. Di Bartolo (Boston College (MA, USA). Over the years, her research activity has focused on itinerant ferromagnetism, pulsed laser-based deposition techniques (PLD, MAPLE), PDMS-based microfluidics, the photonics of thin films, white-light emitting nanophosphors, colloidal lithography techniques, short-range ordered nanohole arrays. Presently, she is Research Fellow at the Department of Mathematics and Physics of the University of Salento and her research activities also involve light microscopy and digital image processing for the investigation of bacterial quorum-sensing phenomena. She has authored and co-authored over 50 publications and seven chapters in a volume of work.