I am a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Theory and Simulation of Materials at Imperial College London in the Department of Materials, which I joined as a Lecturer in 2016, and Group Leader of the SoftNanoLab. I received my BSc and MSc in Materials Science from Universita’ degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca in Milano and continued with a PhD at Imperial College London also in Materials Science. From 2010 to 2013 I worked as a Research Associate at Univeristy of Cambridge working on development of theory and simulations to describe DNA-coated colloids and their self-assembly. From 2013 to 2015 I was awarded an Alexander-vom-Humboldt Fellowship and worked at the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin on the development of theoretical models for protein adsorption on nanoparticles and describtion of kinetic processes in nanoreactors. From 2015 to 2018 I was Professor of Soft Matter at Beijing University of Chemical Technology, initially as a full member and later with a visiting position. In 2019, I was awarded the Chinese Academy of Science Presidential Fellowship (PiFi fellowship) to continue my collaboration with the CAS Institute of Physics in Beijing.