Anna Pintus (Cagliari, Italy 1984) graduated summa cum laude at the University of Cagliari (Italy) in 2007. In 2011 she was awarded a PhD in Chemistry and Doctor Europeaus title at the same University.  During her PhD she spent a Research stay under an Erasmus Exchange Program Sponsorship (2010) at the Chemistry Department of the University of Sheffield (UK). She subsequently worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences of the University of Cagliari (2012-2014, 2017-2018) and in 2013 she was awarded a Fulbright grant in the category Research Scholar, which was exploited to spend six months at the School of Chemistry of Stanford University (USA). Between 2015 and 2017 she worked as a Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK) and between 2019 and 2021 she held a Research Fellow (Ricercatore a tempo determinato di tipo A) position at the Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences of the University of Cagliari. Since 2021 she has been holding an Assistant Professor position (Ricercatore a tempo determinato di tipo B) at the same institution. 

Her research interests focus on the synthesis and characterisation of new substrates rich in nitrogen, sulfur, and selenium, in particular coordination compounds of precious transition metals. The experimental research is supported by theoretical calculations. The applications of her research span from Information and communication technology to medicine and Cultural Heritage 

She is corresponding author or co-author of more than 50 scientific publications in international peer-reviewed journals and of numerous contributions to Italian and international congresses.