Lucia Veltri was born in Cosenza in 1975. In 1999 she graduated in Chemistry at the University of Calabria and on 12.12.2002 she has obtained the title of Ph.D. in chemistry at the same University. From 2003 to 2006 she was a research fellow at the University of Calabria, working on the synthesis of new materials for optical devices. In 2007 she became Researcher of Organic Chemistry at University of Calabria. In 2015 she won a research funding for the "International Mobility of Young Researchers" which she spent at the University of Greenwich (research group Prof. Dobbs) for 6 months. In 2022 she became Associate Professor. of Organic Chemistry at University of Calabria. Her scientific production includes more than 60 peer-reviewed papers in international journals, 3 patents and 1 book chapter. 

Lucia Veltri’s research activities mainly concern: the development of innovative catalytic methods for the synthesis of molecules of pharmaceutic interest, and the synthesis of new material for application in optical device.