**About the Editor**

**Maria Angela Castriciano** (Messina, Italy) is a researcher at the Institute for the Study of Nanostructured Material (ISMN), Department of Chemistry and Technology of Materials (DSCTM), National Research Council (CNR), Messina, Italy. She received her PhD in February 2002 from the Chemistry Department of the University of Messina, Italy. Her research interests span a broad range of topics at the interfaces of supramolecular, macromolecular and material chemistry. She is an expert in: (i) the synthesis, functionalization and characterization of nano and mesoscopic structures of organic, inorganic and hybrid systems for applications in the field of sensors, optoelectronics and drug release; (ii) aggregation phenomena in solution and supramolecular organization of chromophoric systems on polymeric and/or biological matrices and confined environments (with particular attention to the expression and transmission of chirality on a nano and mesoscopic scale); (iii) the design, synthesis and characterization of organic dyes and their derived metals for use as photosensitizers or composite polymeric membranes for applications in polymeric electrolyte fuel cell technology; and (iv) the characterization of chromophoric systems by static and time resolved spectroscopic and/or light scattering techniques. She has published more than 60 articles in SCIE journals and has been cited more than 1300 times. She has an h-index of 21 (May 2020).
