Born in L’Aquila, Italy, in 1987, she graduated in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Pisa in 2014 with the experimental thesis "Follow-up of chronic enteropathies in dogs: 150 cases", subsequently published by Italian Academic Editions. In 2016, she obtained a first-level Master in Food Quality Management at the University of Pisa. In her working years as a freelancer, she worked in different veterinary clinics and hospitals dealing with internal medicine, with attention to gastroenterology and nutrition of pets. In 2021, she obtained a PhD in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Teramo with an experimental project on intestinal microbiota of dogs. From April to November 2018, she did an internship at the ProDigest company in Ghent, Belgium, developing an in vitro model to simulate the intestinal ecosystem of the dog. From January to March 2020, she spent a period at Texas A&M University in the GI lab. From December 2021, she is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Teramo, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, and also obtained a second-level Master in Small Animals Nutrition. Author of several publications in the field of animal nutrition and gut microbiota of dogs, she has presented her studies in many International Congresses. She is a member of the ESVCN and the CGS.