Sara Nocentini got her International PhD in Atomic and Molecular Photonics at the European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS) in Florence in 2017, where she was a Post-Doc for 2 years. Since 2019, she has been a researcher at the National Institute of Metrological Research (INRiM) in Turin in the Metrology of Innovative Materials and Life Sciences Division. She is the author of more than 25 articles in international journals and the coordinator of a metrology project and a national PRIN 2022 project ‘Photag’. In 2024 she was awarded funding for the ERC Starting Grant project ‘3DnanoGiant’. Her research interests and activities include smart polymers for photonics, microrobotics and cryptography.