Dr. Lucia Comez graduated from the University of Perugia in 1996 and obtained the Ph.D. from the University of Camerino in 2001.

She was post-doc at the Perugia Physics Department and in 2002 became researcher at CNR-INFM.

Since 2008 she is a CNR-IOM researcher.

From March 2016 to March 2020, she headed the UOS-IOM in Perugia.

Topical scientific interests include structural and dynamical studies of glasses, hydrogels, proteins, canonical and non-canonical DNA under different environmental conditions. She has a background as a spectroscopist, and she gained experience both in in-house techniques, Brillouin and Raman scattering, DLS, EDLS, CD, UV-Vis, and in large scale facilities around the world: ELETTRA (Italy), ESRF and ILL (France), ISIS (UK), MLZ (Germany), Spring-8 (Japan). She has co-published about 90 peer-reviewed papers and 2 book chapters.

From 2017, she is director of the biennial whorkshop/school "Frontiers in Water Biophysics" that takes place in Erice, Sicily (Italy), in the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre For Scientific Culture.

She presented several contributions to international conferences, and research centers. She is/was tutor for several (master degree and PhD) students.

She is a member of Società Italiana di Spettroscopia Neutronica (SISN), Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Materiali (INSTM), and European Molecular Liquids Group (EMLG).

From 2014 she is in the board of the “PhD Science and Tecnology for Physics and Geology School” at UNIPG.