Elisa Verna was born in Alba (CN), Italy, in 1992. She received the M.Sc. Degree in “Industrial Engineering and Management” from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 2016. She is currently Ph.D. student in “Management, Production and Design” at the Department of Management and Production Engineering (DIGEP) of Politecnico di Torino, and she is member of the "Quality Engineering and Management Group" (http://www.qualityengineering.polito.it/). In July 2019 she joined the Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering of the Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, as visiting researcher for four months. Her current research interests are in the areas of Quality Engineering, Statistical Process Control and Innovative Production Systems. Specifically, her research focuses on the development of methods to design and assess the effectiveness and affordability of quality-inspection strategies in low-volume productions.