Tersilla Virgili took her PhD in 2000 at the Physics Department of The University of Sheffield (UK). Since 2001 she is a permanent researcher of the Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnogies (IFN) in Milan (Italy). Her research is based on organic materials. She is an expert of ultrafast spectroscopy, organic microcavity (weak and strong coupling regime) and of organic devices. She is co-author of more than 90 international publications, 3 chapters of book and she is co-inventors of 2 international patents.