I am currently Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology of the University of Perugia in Italy. I received my laurea (M.Sc.) and Ph.D. in chemistry from the same university. During my graduate studies, I spent a 15 month-research period as a visiting scholar in the USA at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Thereafter, I worked as a Research Associate in the group of Prof. Theodore Goodson at the University of Michigan. After obtaining the Italian National Habilitation, I returned to Perugia as a faculty member. My research interests concern the investigation of the excited state dynamics of organic materials through ultrafast laser spectroscopy, particularly of photoinduced charge and energy transfer processes. I am fascinated by peculiar photophysical phenomena, such as Singlet Fission and Aggregation Induced Emission, crucial for the development of more efficient Organic Photovoltaics and Organic Light Emitting Diodes. Recently, I have become intrigued by quantum effects surprisingly occurring in the complex biological environment.