Elisa Toto received her Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from the Department of Chemical Engineering Materials Environment (DICMA), Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, in 2020. She is currently working at the Sapienza University of Rome. Her expertise is in the fields of polymers, composites, advanced materials, material characterization, nanomaterials, nanocomposites, and graphene.

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Susanna Laurenzi received her M.Sc. in Astronautical Engineering in 2004 and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering in 2007 from the School of Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She was a researcher of Aerospace and Defense at the Centro Sviluppo Materiali S.p.A., Rome, Italy from 2006–2011. She is currently an associate professor of Aerospace Structures and Design at Sapienza University of Rome. Her research fields include the design and manufacturing of aerospace structures, engineering of nanocomposites and advanced composite materials for aerospace applications, and analysis of failure mechanisms in nanostructured composite materials.

Maria Gabriella Santonicola received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware (Newark, DE, USA) in 2006. In 2007, she joined the Department of Materials Science at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (Mainz, Germany) as a postdoctoral researcher. From 2009 to 2011, she worked in the group of Materials Science and Technology of Polymers at the University of Twente and MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology (Enschede, The Netherlands). In 2011, she was awarded the Rita Levi Montalcini grant from the Italian Ministry of University and Research and started as an assistant professor at Sapienza University of Rome. She has been an associate professor of Materials Science and Technology at Sapienza University of Rome since 2021 and an associate fellow of the National Laboratory of Frascati (Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics INFN) since 2020. Her current research activities are in the fields of advanced polymer materials and composites for space applications, stimuli-responsive hydrogels for biosensing and biomedical applications, and polymer characterization techniques on different length scales.