Lorenza Petrini received her MSc Degree in Structural Engineering at Politecnico di Milano and Ph.D in Civil Engineering (2000) at the University of Pavia. Since 2025 she is Full Professor of Solid Mechanics at Politecnico di Milano. She has worked in the areas of mechanics of materials and devices in structural and biomedical fields. In the last years, she focused her research on: i) experimental and numerical assessement of fatigue and fracture in Nitinol devices; 2) numerical analysis for seimic assessment of buildings; 3) experimental and numerical assessment of biomedical devices. She is the author of more than 150 scientific works.