Valeria Vadalà was born in Reggio Calabria, Italy, in 1982. She received her M.S. degree cum laude in electronic engineering from the “Mediterranea” University of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy, in 2006, and her Ph.D. degree in information engineering from the University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, in 2010. In 2013 she was invited to spend a period as a Visiting Fellow at the Telecommunication and Microwave Laboratory (TELEMIC) at the Engineering Department of KU Leuven University in Belgium. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Physics, University of Milano-Bicocca where she teaches the course of electronic instrumentation and measurement. Her current research interests include nonlinear electron-device characterization and modeling and circuit-design techniques for nonlinear microwave and millimeter wave applications.