Chiara Gastaldi received a Master of Science in 2013 at Politecnico di Torino, Politecnico di Milano and at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a PhD in Aerospace Engineering in 2017. She was a visiting researcher at Sandia National Laboratories in 2014 and at University of Michigan in 2015. Since 2018 she has been a researcher at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Politecnico di Torino, where she won a tenure track position in 2021. She is an active member of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers).