**About the Editor**

## **Tania Limongi**

Tania Limongi is an Assistant Professor in Italy in the Department of Applied Science and Technology, of the Politecnico of Torino. She received her Master Degree in 1999 in Biological Sciences at the University of L'Aquila and her Ph.D. in Microsystem Engineering at the University of Rome Tor Vergata in 2004. Dr Limongi's research interests are primarily in Applied Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Biochemistry, and Molecular Physics. Her current research focuses on the development of effective drug delivery solution and hybrid nanoparticles for combined therapeutic and diagnostic applications, on the fabrication of biocompatible and biodegradable porous scaffolds for tissue engineering application and on the optimization of new effective high resolution single molecule detection approaches. She published more than 70 papers in reputed journals, she holds 3 patents, and she is reviewer, section editor and guest editor for several peer review journals.
