Marina Leite is a Professor in Materials Science and Engineering and a Chancellor’s Fellow at UC Davis (USA). She has >80 publications (with 32 journal covers) and has delivered >185 invited talks at conferences and research institutions around the globe. Leite is an awardee of the 2022 Chancellor Fellowship from UC Davis, the 2016 APS Ovshinsky Sustainable Energy Fellowship from the American Physical Society, and of the 2014 Maryland Academy of Sciences Outstanding Young Scientist Award. She is an associate editor of APL Materials, and is on the editorial board of Adv. Optical Materials, ACS Applied Optical Materials, Adv. Materials Interfaces, etc. Before joining UC Davis, Leite was an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. She also worked at NIST and was a post-doctoral scholar at Caltech. Leite’s research has been supported by DARPA and NSF programs, ARO, and Sandia National Laboratories.