Marisa Michelini is full professor in Physics Education at Udine University, Italy, where she has been Rector delegate for Didactic and Innovation, Tutoring and School-University Relationships since 1994. She founded and led many institutional structures and developed rules for evaluation, didactic management and innovation. She has been responsible for the Research Unit in Physics Education (URDF) since 1992. Professor Michelini was president of GIREP, director of the Italian University Consortium GEO, committee member of the Multimedia Physics Teaching and Learning (MPTL), board member of EPS-PED division and honorary member of the Italian Association for Physics Teaching (AIF), after serving in the Executive Committee of ESERA. Her research activity is in two fields: Electrical transport properties in thin films and Physics Education.