Prof. Michele Ortolani earned his PhD in Materials Science at Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, in 2005. He has worked at Helmoltz Zentrum Berlin in collaboration with thE German Aerospace Center (DLR) and at the National Research Council of Italy. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Physics of Sapienza University of Rome. Therein, he leads the Infrared Spectroscopy Group equipped with research-grade FTIR spectrometers also used for ground truth measurements. His research interests lie in the infrared and THz spectroscopy of semiconductors and molecules.