Dr Fadda is a lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at Maynooth University. She has a BSc and an MSc in Chemistry from the Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy, and a PhD in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry from the Université de Montréal, Canada. Her first postdoc is in Molecular Structure and Function at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. She moved to Galway in 2008, where she worked as a research fellow and honorary lecturer in computational glycobiology in the School of Chemistry at NUI Galway. In 2013 she moved to Maynooth. Her main research interests are in understanding the mechanisms, structure, energy and dynamics of biomolecular interactions. To do this she uses primarily computer simulation techniques, whereby biomolecules are represented through mathematical models and their behaviour determined by computer calculations. Unconventionally for a chemist, her work does not require a lab coat, but it is very often coupled and used to interpret and guide experiments. She has always been very interested and keen in promoting science to a wide (and especially to a young) audience as a tool to foster curiosity in the fundamental sciences and to encourage gender equality in STEM.