Paola Lova's research focuses on functional materials design and processing. As an Assistant Professor, since 2020, she is focusing on metal oxide nanostructures to improve light harvesting in photoactive media. In addition to this research line, she continues to successfully work on previous activities being PI of the project MERITI, which aims at the sequestration and optical detection of food degradation by-products. She is also UNIGE PI for the project WATERONIC, targeting selective sorption and photo-mineralization of emerging pollutants and LOOP, targeting reductive defluorination of PFAS in environmental conditions.