Miss Piras Alessandra was born in Cagliari (Italy) on the 19th of August, 1991. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in Chemistry in 2013 and her master’s degree in Chemical Science in 2017 at the University of Cagliari. During the master’s internship, she carried out part of the thesis work at the Polytechnic of Torino, DISAT (Italy). Currently, she is a joint Ph.D. candidate in Chemistry between Hasselt and Namur University in Belgium. Her work mainly focuses on synthesizing and characterizing doped zinc oxide semiconductors towards improved photocatalytic performance in dye degradation for water remediation.