Rosaria Anna Puglisi received the B.S. degree (cum laude) in physics in 1996 and the Ph.D. degree in materials science from the University of Catania, Catania, Italy, in 2000. During the Ph.D. program, she spent one year at the Applied Physics Department, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, working on materials for photovoltaics under the supervision of Prof. H. Atwater. Since 2001, she is a Staff Research Scientist at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Istituto per la Microelettronica e Microsistemi (IMM), Catania. Her research interests include the electrical and structural characterization of semiconductor materials and photovoltaic devices.