She is also affiliated with the Advanced Research Center on Electronic Systems for Information and Communication Technologies E. De Castro (ARCES) there. Her research interests include design and test of digital systems, reliable and error-resilient systems, fault tolerance, online testing, fault modeling, concurrent diagnosis, and debugging. Metra has a Laurea in electronic engineering and a PhD degree in electronic engineering and computer science from the University of Bologna. She is associate editor in chief of IEEE Transactions on Computers and a Golden Core Member of the IEEE Computer Society.