Valentina Paganini obtained her master’s degree in Pharmacy from the University of Pisa in 2021. After graduation, she completed two short-term research fellowships at the Department of Pharmacy, University of Pisa focusing on the formulation of topical products for skin and nail applications. In 2021, she began her Ph.D. in the Science of Drug and Bioactive Substances at the University of Pisa under the supervision of Prof. Patrizia Chetoni, earning the degree with honors in 2025 with a doctoral thesis entitled “Design and Development of Advanced Skin and Eye Formulations for Targeted Drug Delivery: Innovative Experimental Models and Biopharmaceutical Evaluation”. During her Ph.D., she spent a research period at the University of Porto under the supervision of Prof. Eliana B. Souto, working on solid lipid nanoparticles for ocular drug delivery. Since October 2024, Dr. Paganini has been a research fellow at the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Pisa, studying the synthesis and characterization of bio-based polymeric materials for cosmetic applications.