Maria Anita Rampi studied chemistry at the University of Bologna. She is now Professor of Chemistry at the University of Ferrara, where she teaches Inorganic Chemistry and Chemistry of Nanostructured Materials. She has been interested in i) photochemistry and photophysics of supramolecular systems, ii) photoinduced energy and electron transfer processes in supramolecular systems both in solution and in self assembled monolayers on solid surfaces, and iii) electron-transfer processes in molecular junctions. For several years she has been visiting professor at Max Plank Insitute in Goettingen, Germany, and at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.