Cristiana Delprete received an M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy (1988), and a PhD in Applied Mechanics, Mechanical Systems and Structures (1993). Since 1991, she has been an assistant professor in Machine Design, and she was appointed associate in 1998 and then full professor in 2017. She belongs to the Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Eng. of the Politecnico di Torino. She has been Technical Coordinator of the Interdepartmental Laboratory of Mechatronics at the Politecnico di Torino (1993–1996). She is co-leader of the research group in Industrial Systems Design and Engineering, dealing with Machine and System Design, Structural Mechatronics and Systems Engineering. Since 2009, she has been Faculty Advisor of the Policumbent Student Team of the Politecnico di Torino. She wrote about 230 papers, published in either international journals or conference proceedings, and she is the author of three patents. In 2004, the Piedmont Region awarded her with the Galileo Ferraris Award for Best Innovative Idea related to the patented force transducer for railway application. Since 2005, she has been a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), and she is currently a member of the Italian Society for Stress Analysis (AIAS).