Mechanical engineer and a PhD in Science and Engineering Biorobotics, has carried out research on neuroprosthesis at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa (www.sssup.it) where she worked to develop prototypes of new invasive neural interfaces. Winner of the Best 2011 Fulbright Scholarship, she attended from January to June 2011 to an entrepreneurial training program at Santa Clara University in the heart of Silicon Valley in California working on her business plan SMANIA.