Alessandra Lanzara received her PhD in physics from Universita’ di Roma La Sapienza, Italy in 1999. She was a postdoc at Stanford University for three years since 1999. In 2002 she joined the physics Department faculty at UC Berkeley as Assistant Professor and since 2011 she is a Full Professor. She is also a Senior Faculty Scientist at the Materials Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 2002.
She is recipient of many prizes among which was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2008 and elected to the American Academy of Art and Science in 2022.
Other affiliation of Prof. Lanzara includes the Kavli Energy Nanoscience Institute, the department of Applied Sciences and Technology and the Materials Sciences Division at LBNL. She is also the founder and director of the Center for Sustainable Materials and Innovation at UC Berkeley.