Prof. Chiara Battocchio is Associate Professor in General Chemistry at the Dept. of Science, Roma Tre University, where she carries out her research in the field of materials science. Her research activity mainly concerns with the study of the molecular and electronic structure of nanostructured materials, carried out by state-of-the-art Synchrotron Radiation (SR) -induced techniques as SR-XPS, XAS and NEXAFS, as well as conventional XPS, UV-vis absorption, emission and FT-IR.