After her Bachelor'sDegree in Chemical Engineering in 2008, she earned a Master's Degree in Chemical Engineering at University of Calabria (Italy) in 2011, grade 110/110 and honors. In 2012, she took professional practice examination and engineering license. In 2014, she obtained her PhD in Mechanical Engineering at University of Calabria, with a thesis about "Processes of separation, extraction and bioconversion in biofuel production from microalgae". She continued her post-doctoral research at University of Calabria in the fields of bioconversion, extraction and green processes. During her research activity, she worked as a visiting researcher at DTU (Denmark), University of Genova (Italy) and KU Leuven (Belgium). Moreover, she participated to several national and international conferences, she held some academic courses and co-supervised some degree thesis in Chemical Engineering. Author of more than twenty publications and reviewer of several manuscripts in scientific journals.