Antonella Esposito is an Italian scientist currently living and working in France. She is a lecturer (Maître de Conférences) at Université de Rouen Normandie, where she belongs to a small department focusing on the physical characterization of disordered systems, glasses, and polymers (Systèmes Désordonnés et Polymères) within a larger research unit specialized in the physical and microstructural characterization of organic and inorganic materials on different length scales (Groupe de Physique des Matériaux). She was born in 1979 (Terni, Italy). As a teenager, she was passionate about classical studies (ancient Greek, Latin, philosophy, art history) until 1998, when she decided to move to modern science. She graduated from Università degli Studi di Perugia (Terni, Italy) in 2005 as a Materials Engineer with an M.Sc. in Innovative Materials, then moved to France where she completed her Ph.D. degree in 2008 in Polymers and Composite Materials at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées in Lyon. After a two-year teaching experience in Oyonnax, she became a Maître de Conférences at the Université de Rouen Normandie in 2010. She investigates the relations between chemistry, microstructure, and properties of biobased and/or biodegradable polymers, and their evolution with time, accounting for molecular relaxations within complex two- and three-phase microstructures with different coupling between ordered and disordered phases.
