Dr. Marzia Paderi is a researcher at the Micro & Nanotechnologies Division of Centro Ricerche FIAT. Sheobtained the graduation in Chemistry at the University of Torino in 1999 and she completed her academic training in the Micro & Nanotechnologies Division at CRF where she is actually a researcher in the area of Nanotechnologies. Her main areas of involvement are: fabrication and characterisation of nanostructured emitting materials for light emitting devices for automotive applications, development of functional coatings, photonic crystals for sensing applications. She currently works participating in European and Italian projects (i.e. IST projects “FUNLIGHT” and “STABILIGHT”).