Dr. Leonardo Zanini is a PhD student at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Padova. He received his master's degree in Physics in 2018 attending the curriculum of Experimental Matter Physics at the same University. He worked as an optical engineer at Magneti Marelli Automotive Lighting until 2019 and he subsequently began his PhD in Physics in October 2019. In his PhD studies, he is focusing on the realization of opto-microfluidic devices and their application as sensors, particularly referring to the detection of microdroplets encapsulating micro and nanostructured dispersions.