Dr Nicole Zoratto obtained her master’s degree in pharmaceutical chemistry and technologies at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, in 2016. Before graduating, she undertook her eight-month master’s research project at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Science at King’s College London, UK, under the supervision of Prof Cécile Dreiss. In the same year, she started her PhD in pharmaceutical science at the Sapienza University of Rome. Her research project focused on the development of innovative polysaccharide-based scaffolds for drug delivery applications. From November 2018 to August 2019, she was a visiting graduate researcher at the Khademhosseini laboratory at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, USA, where her research project mainly focused on microfluidic-assisted particle formations, followed by particle annealing to develop soft and beaded-based scaffolds for tissue engineering applications. She earned her PhD in pharmaceutical sciences in December 2019 and then completed a year of postdoctoral research on polysaccharide-based hydrogels and nanogels in the Department of Chemistry and Technology of Drugs at the Sapienza University of Rome.