Dr. Umme Salma received her PhD in Physical Chemistry from the "La Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy in 2017. She is currently a Researcher at the Institute of Crystallography(IC), CNR, in Bari, Italy. She worked as a Postdoc at the Institute of Nanotechnology, National Research Council (CNR), in Lecce, Italy, from 2022 to 2023. Additionally, she was a Visiting Research Associate at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queen's University Belfast, UK, in 2016. Her research interests mainly include ionic liquids, deep eutectic solvents, MD simulations, x-ray scattering, nuclear fusion reactions, and energy materials.