Elisabetta Collini is Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Department of Chemical Sciences.

She obtained her BSc (2003) and PhD (2007) degrees in Chemistry at the University of Padova. She was then postdoctoral fellow at the University of Padova from 2007 to 2012 and at the Institute for Optical Sciences and Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control of the University of Toronto (2008-2009). Her main research interests are focused on the study and characterization of nonlinear properties and excited state dynamics of multichromophoric systems with particular attention to energy transfer processes. In 2011 she was awarded an ERC Starting grant for the project QUENTRHEL (2012-2017), which is aimed to the development of new spectroscopic tools able to unveil the presence and the nature of vibrational modes acting during the energy migration and possibly driving coherent mechanisms of energy transfer in artificial helical systems. She was also involved as Local Coordinator in two collaborative projects (MULTI and PAPETS) funded by EU, devoted to the characterization of quantum effects in molecular logic and biological processes. Her research activity, proved by several papers published in high impact journals, was recently awarded several national and international awards (G. Borgia prize in Chemistry by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei; "Donne Talento ed Innovazione" prize by the M. Bellisario Foundation; P. Levi prize in Chemistry by the Italian Chemistry Society; European Young Chemist Award 2012 (gold medal) by EuChem, M.B. Ceolin prize by the University of Padova).