Tersilla Virgili received a Master's degree in Physics from the Università of Bologna, Italy, in 1996, and a Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Sheffield in 2000. Since December 2001, she has held a permanent position as a researcher at the Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnologies (IFN) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Milan. Her current research interests include ultrafast spectroscopy, the photophysics of organic and inorganic compounds, microcavity working in weak and strong coupling regime and organic quantum batteries. She is the co-author of more than 150 international papers (articles and proceedings), 2 international patents and 3 book contributions. She is also an academic editor for Molecules and a review editor for Frontiers in Physics. Since 2003, she has been a contract Physics professor at Politecnico di Milano.