The legacy of Mariarosaria Manzo

This contribution is aimed at drawing the professional and human profile of our colleague and friend Mariarosaria, based on the memories and materials that we have collected during her 20 years’ activity at the Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (IREA) of the National Research Council (CNR), Naples, Italy. Beside a short overview of her professional contribution at IREA-CNR, we intend to provide also our personal memories picked up from 20 years of co-workership and friendship. Anecdotes, stories and facts will be also provided, with the objective to transmit Mariarosaria’s intelligence, competence, passion, courage, poise, firmness, gentleness, determination and sweetness, all enclosed in her wonderful smile and amazing blue eyes. All this represents her legacy that we want to pass on.