Biography

Valentina completed her Ph.D. (with honours) in Innovative Technologies for Communication and Information Engineering from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa, Italy), the top University in Italy (Times Higher Education ranking). Then, she was a postdoctoral researcher and then MITACS fellow in the ECE Department at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver (BC), Canada), working on integrated optical sensors on Silicon Photonics chips in one of the world leading groups for Silicon Photonics. Before joining QMUL, she was the head of the Intelligent Vehicles Group at WMG, and she designed and launched the Smart Connected and Autonomous Vehicles MSc.