Elisabetta Paladino is Associate Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy “Ettore Majorana” (DFA) of the University of Catania since April 2015 and research associate to the CNR-IMM Catania Università. Her area of expertise are open quantum systems, non Markovian and 1/f noise, quantum computation and advanced quantum control of nanodevices for quantum computation. Recently her research interests extended to quantum heat transfer and rectification. Within SiUCs she is PI of the partner CNR, the research co-funding organization of the project.