Prof. Giulia Fulvia Mancini received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the University of Pavia, and she obtained her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the Federal Polytechnical School of Lausanne (EPFL), LUMES group (Prof. Fabrizio Carbone). In 2015, she moved to the United States and joined the Kapteyn-Murnane group as a PostDoctoral Fellow at JILA, University of Colorado-Boulder and NIST (USA). After a Team Leader position as Senior Research Associate at SwissFEL (PSI) with EPFL (Prof. Majed Chergui), she decided to re-invest the experience gained abroad in Italy, where she returned as winner of an ERC Starting Grant and a project of the Cariplo Foundation. Prof. Giulia Fulvia Mancini is now Associate Professor and member of the Department of Physics at the University of Pavia. In her group, the Laboratory for Ultrafast X-ray and Electron Microscopy (LUXEM), the research interest are in ultrafast laser science, particularly in understanding structure-property relationships in functional nanomaterials and interfaces, in the ultrafast (10^(-15)s) time domain, through novel experimental scattering and imaging techniques which integrate tabletop (HHG) and facility (Synchrotrons, Free-Electron Lasers) pulsed X-rays and electrons sources. In 2020, she was awarded the Mildred Dresselhaus Junior Prize and Guest Professorship from the CUI Centre for Ultrafast Advanced Imaging of Matter and the Hamburg University, in recognition of her early scientific achievements and to serve as role model for women in physical sciences. In 2021 she received the Young Scientist Prize in Optics for her “contributions to imaging and scattering of nanostructured materials using high-harmonic soft X-ray sources and research on extreme ultraviolet imaging”. Track record and funding information: https://luxem.unipv.it/