Sara Moccia received the M.Sc. degree cum laude in Biomedical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2014, and the European Ph.D. degree cum laude in Bioengineering from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in 2018. During her PhD, she was hosted at the German Cancer Research Center. She was Postdoctoral Researcher at Università Politecnica delle Marche until 2021, when she became Assistant Professor at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA), Italy. She is currently Associate Professor in Bioengineering at Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio" Chieti – Pescara. The aim of her research activities is to unlock the potential of deep learning for the analysis of a wide range of medical images to support clinicians during the actual clinical and surgical procedures. For her research, she received the "Gruppo Nazionale di Bioingegneria & Patron" Award for her Ph.D. thesis. In 2021, she was granted a L'Oréal Italia for Women and Science in collaboration with the Italian National Commission for UNE