Vincenzina Barbera is a professor in the courses of Chemistry and of Enviromental Chemistry at Politecnico Milan. She got her PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Catania with a thesis on Domino reactions. From 2014, she was a Post-Doc Research Fellow at the Department of Chemistry, Material, and Chemical Engineering, “G. Natta”, Politecnico di Milano. She is the author of 59 peer-reviewed publications and the inventor of 14 families of patents (International and Italian Granted Patents), 24 patent applications, 2 book chapters, 15 proceedings, 98 oral and 52 conference poster communications, and 7 invited lectures. Her research topics range from synthetic organic chemistry to catalysis, materials for tires, and sustainable flexible electronics, funded by Italian, European, and company grants.