A research chemist at Italy’s National Research Council Institute for the Study of Nanostructured Materials, Rosaria Ciriminna ranks in the top 2% World Ranking list of Scientists in all fields of science. Developed in collaboration with leading research groups in Italy and abroad, her work focuses on green chemistry applied to synthetic organic chemistry and to the extraction of natural products, materials chemistry and catalysis. She has published nearly 300 research papers and frequently mentors undergraduate and doctoral students.