Elisa Ficarra graduated in Electrical Engineering at the University of Bologna, Italy, in March 2001. In 2006 she got an International Ph.D. of excellence in Systems and Computer Science at the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. She was a visiting scientist at the Computer Science Dept. of Stanford University (CA, USA) in 2002 and at the Integrated System Laboratory of EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, from Jan. to Dec. 2005. She worked at Politecnico di Torino as an Associate Professor in Bioinformatics until 2021.
Since 2021, she has been a Full Professor at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in the Department of Engineering “Enzo Ferrari”.
