Assunta Borzacchiello earned her M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering cum laude and the PhD degree in Material Technologies (1998) at University of Naples “Federico II.” She was a Research Scientist at QMWC University of London (1996) and at University of Connecticut, USA (1997). She was Professor of Biomaterials at the University of Naples “Federico II” from 2002 to 2011. She was a visiting professor at McGill University, Canada (2018-2019). She is currently the Research Director at IPCB-National Research Council of Italy. She is the author of about 120 peer-reviewed papers (H-index 40). The Borzacchiello research activities focus on Biomimetic materials and natural polymers for biomedical applications and nanomedicine, microfluidic techniques, rheology and microrheology of complex fluids.