Francesca Villafiorita-Monteleone graduated in Biomedical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in 2007 and she received her PhD in “Interdisciplinar Sciences and Technologies”, with a specialization in “Nanosciences and Grid Computing” in 2011, with the thesis “Patterning and Surface Wettability Control of Polymer Nanocomposite Coatings: Implementation in Microfluidic Systems”. From 2012 to 2016 she worked at “Istituto per lo Studio delle Macromolecole (ISMAC-CNR)” in Milano (Italy) and from 2017 to 2018 she worked at “Istituto di Biofisica (IBF-CNR)” in Milano (Italy). She is currently a researcher at “Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche “Giulio Natta” (SCITEC-CNR)” in Milano (Italy). Her work is centered around the morphological and optical characterization of smart materials suitable as sensors, OPV devices, etc.