Raffaella Fontana graduated in Physics and received her PhD in Non-Destructive Techniques at the University of Florence. Since 2004, she is a researcher at the National Institute of Optics of the National Research Council (CNR-INO) where she coordinates the Heritage Science Groupe since 2010. She published more than 50 papers and many book chapters and research monographs. Her research focuses on non-invasive optical techniques for the diagnosis of artworks, mainly imaging techniques and methods for the three-dimensional survey.