Francesca Alessandro received her master’s degree in Physics from the University of Calabria (Italy) in 2015 and earned her Ph.D. in Science and Engineering of the Environmental, Construction and Energy from the same university in 2020. While pursuing her doctorate, she spent a research period at the University Materials Institute of Alicante (IUMA). Then, she worked as a junior research fellow at the University of Calabria. She is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute on Membrane Technology (ITM-CNR, Italy) under the supervision of Prof. Enrico Drioli and Dr. Francesca Macedonio. Her main research interests include plasmonic nanostructures, 2D materials, membrane distillation, and membrane crystallization.