Carla Molteni is Professor of Physics at King’s College London and works at the interface of Physics with Chemistry, Materials Science and Biology. Before joining King’s, she worked at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, where she held a EU Human Capital and Mobility Fellowship, a EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship and a non-stipendiary College Research Fellowship at New Hall (now Murray-Edwards College), and at the Max Planck fuer Festokoerperforschung in Stuttgart (Germany). She obtained her Master and PhD degrees in Physics at the University of Milan (Italy).