Chiara M. A. Gangemi was born in Catania, Italy in 1983. She received her master degree in organic chemistry in 2012 (110/110 cum laude) and PhD in chemical science at the University of Catania. She spent 6 months at Columbia University in a group under the guidance of Prof. Nakanishi and Berova, where she studied the interactions of organic molecules with DNA. Her research is focused on the synthesis and spectroscopic investigations of organic molecules (e.g., porphyrins, oligophenylene ethynylenes, BODIPY derivatives) and their interactions with biomolecules. She is a post-doc researcher in the Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical, and Environmental Sciences (ChiBioFarAm) at the University of Messina.