M. Lucia Curri is Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry of University of Bari “Aldo Moro” (Italy). She received her PhD in Chemistry from University of Bari (Italy) in 1997. Before joining University of Bari, in 2018, she was at Italian National Research Council (CNR). Currently she is also associated research scientist at CNR IPCF Bari. She is active in material chemistry research, aiming to design, fabricate and process inorganic solids at the nanoscale to obtain multifunctional nanostructured materials both for fundamental investigation and for applications in biomedical field, energy conversion and environmental technologies for optoelectronic, photocatalytic and life science applications. She has coordinated a European FP7 project and has been responsible for CNR IPCF Bari of numerous FP6, FP7 and H2020 European and National projects in the field of nanomaterials. She has co-authored over 220 publications, including more than 170 JCR papers, 10 book chapters and has contributed to many conferences with invited talks.