Elisa Mele is currently Research Group Leader in the Nanophysics Department of IIT. She has graduated in 2003 in Physics at the University of Lecce (Italy), and in 2007 she got the PhD in Innovative Materials and Technologies at the University of Lecce (Italy). In 2008, she was visiting scientist in the Department of Physics at Harvard University (Cambridge, US), in the Experimental Soft Condensed Matter Group. After two years of post-doc at CNR-Istituto di Nanoscienze (Lecce, Italy), she was senior post-doc at the Center for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies of IIT (2009-2011). Her research activity is mainly based on the production of surfaces and devices with controlled wettability, compl...