**Rosa Iacovino**

Rosa Iacovino graduated in Chemistry at University of Naples "Federico II"discussing a thesis on chemical crystallography. Doctor of research in "Design and use of molecules with biotechnological interest"organized by the Second University of Naples. From 2004, she has been a researcher at the Department of Environmental, Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies of the University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli", Caserta (Italy). From 2008 to 2014, she obtained the position for teaching General and Inorganic Chemistry for the Degree Course in Pharmacy, and from 2015 for teaching General and Inorganic Chemistry for the Degree Course in Environmental Sciences. From 2006 to 2013, she was a component of the research doctorate board in "Design and Use of Molecules of Biotechnological Interest". Her research interests lie in peptide chemistry: the relationships between structure and activity of numerous peptide systems have been the object of her investigations, carried out with a variety of experimental and theoretical techniques, for the understanding of the mechanism of action of biologically relevant systems. Subsequently, she was interested in the following topics: design and synthesis of analogues of biologically active peptides; solid state structural characterization by X-ray diffraction of calixarenes and carexans; study of the conformational properties of functionalized β-cyclodextrin systems. Her research interests currently focus on the study of β-cyclodextrin inclusion complexes with molecules of biotechnological interest to understand their inclusion mechanism, also to evaluate their potential applications in the pharmaceutical and environmental fields. These studies were conducted using spectroscopic techniques, X-ray diffraction and computational methods. She is the author or co-author of more than 50 peer-reviewed publications in international scientific journals. She is referee for several scientific journals.
