Marina Massaro obtained her B.Sc. (2009) and M.Sc. (2013) degrees in Chemistry from University of Palermo. In 2013 she spent three months at University College of Dublin (Ireland) in the group of Dr. Susan Quinn. In 2015 she received his PhD degree from University of Palermo under the supervision of Prof. R. Noto and Dr. S. Riela. Since 2019 she is Research Fellow at University of Palermo. In 2019 she was awarded by the "Accademia of Lincei" of the international prize "V. Caglioti" for Chemistry and in 2020 she received the "Gian Giacomo and Fausta Rivera" prize from "Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere". Her current research interests include modification of halloysite nanotubes for application in several field.