She received her Master of Science in Telecommunication Engineering from Politecnico di Torino (Italy) in July 1998, and her Ph.D. from ENST/Telecom ParisTech (France) in March 2002 (work done at the Mobile Communication Department of the Eurecom Institute in Sophia Antipolis, France). In May 2002, she joined the Mobile Communication Laboratory at the EPFL/Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (Switzerland) where she held the position of Research Associate till December 2004. Since January 2005, she has been with UIC.