Sara holds an MSc in Neural Engineering (2022) from the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy, and a BSc in Biomedical Engineering (2020) from the University of Padua, Italy. During her studies, she undertook academic exchanges at ISEN in France and conducted visiting research at Lund University (Sweden) and the University of Cambridge (UK). Her MSc thesis, completed at EPFL (Swiss), focused on the ex vivo characterization of ultrasound neuromodulation in spinal dorsal roots using a microfabricated nerve-on-a-chip platform. A key aspect of her work was developing an automated data processing framework to enable more comprehensive analysis.

In 2022, Sara began her Ph.D. at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, focusing on artificial intelligence in healthcare and bioinformatics methods for genetic data. In 2023, she was a visiting PhD student at Fermilab, USA, contributing to the optimization of computational resources for medical applications. She is currently collaborating with the Biosemantics group at Erasmus MC, where she focuses on clinical natural language processing and the incorporation of information from clinical text data in patient-level prediction models.