Alessia Colombo graduated in Chemistry (2003, 110/110) at the University of Milan, under the guidance of Prof. E. Santaniello. After graduation, she worked first for Miat Spa and then Sanofi-Aventis in Prof. B. Danieli’s laboratories (2004–2005). Ph.D. in Industrial Chemistry under the guidance of Prof. G. Lesma (Dept. of Organic Industrial Chemistry, 2008). Since 2008 she has collaborated with Prof. D. Roberto (Dept. of Chemistry, University of Milan) first as an INSTM fellow and then as a fellow of the University of Milan. From October 2016 to December 2021, she was a researcher (first as RTD-A then as RTD-B). Since January 2022, she has been an Associate Professor at the Chemistry Department, University of Milan (SSD CHIM/03). She began her research in organic chemistry with the synthesis of new polyfunctionalized chiral synthons, key intermediates in the enantioselective synthesis of polyhydroxylated and 3,5-dialkyl-disubstituted quinolizidines, indolizidines, and pyrrolizidines, she was then attracted by the field of Molecular materials for photonics and electronics. In 2019, she was awarded the Nasini Prize from the Inorganic Chemistry division of the Italian Chemical Society for her “relevant and original contribution to the study of inorganic complexes with optoelectronic properties for applications in luminescence, nonlinear optics and in solar cells”.