Prof. Dr. Francesca Venturini specializes in spectroscopy and optical sensing. She has been working as a lecturer and researcher at the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Physics at the ZHAW School of Engineering since 2013. She coordinates the Profile Photonics of the Master in Science and Engineering MSE program in Switzerland. She is also an expert at Innosuisse and is a consultant for the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovation and the European Research Council of the EU. In 2018 she co-founded TOELT GmbH, a company promoting research in AI for photonic and medical applications in collaboration with several European Universities. Prof. Dr. Francesca Venturini has extensive industrial experience since she worked in R&D for many years before joining the ZHAW. She acts as editor and reviewer for several international scientific journals and is a member of the following associations: Optica, IEEE, SPIE, European Physical Society, Swiss Physical Society, and EPIC21.