She holds a Master from the University of Florence (2002) and a PhD from the University of Basel (2008). She worked as a lecturer at the University of Basel, as a research assistant at the University of Zurich's Institute of Anatomy and in various archaeological institutes both in Greece and in Switzerland (2003-2010). In 2010, as a post-doctoral fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation, she conducted a post-doctoral research for two years on palaeogenetics of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in SE Europe, at the University of Mainz in Germany.