Lucia Cavigli

Lucia Cavigli received the Ph.D. degree in materials science from the Department of Physics, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, in 2006. Since 2011, she has been a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Institute of Applied Physics-CNR. She is Co-author of more than 80 publications on scientific journals and conferences; h-index =18; citations = 975 (Scopus). Her research interests include the fields of optical spectroscopy and nanoplasmonics and the development of photoacoustic platforms for biomedical purposes. In particular, her activities focus on the development and analysis of novel contrast agents and phantoms for photoacoustic imaging and the development of new strategies for photoacoustic-based theranostic approaches in oncology. She was a Project Responsible and Work-Package Leader of CNR research unit within several National and European projects.