Francesca Zuccarello, previously Associate Professor at the University of Catania (Italy), retired since few years. Her research activity has been focused on the study of magnetic phenomena occurring in the solar atmosphere and on the interactions of the magnetized plasma with the circumterrestrial environment. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Rosseland Center for Solar Physics of the University of Oslo and was previously a member of the Science Advisory Group of the European Solar Telescope.